Cancer survivor becomes first person to swim English Channel four times nonstop

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Sarah Thomas is recovering after swimming for more than 54 hours, being stung in the face by a jellyfish and surviving on an electrolyte formula tied to a rope.

"This is for those of us who have prayed for our lives, who have wondered with despair about what comes next, and have battled through pain and fear to overcome," she wrote on her Facebook page.

She started the swim on Sunday and finally came ashore on a beach near Dover, on the south coast of England, on Tuesday morning, exhausted and with a sore throat from the salt water.Her mother, Beck Baxter, told BBC Radio 4 Ms Thomas was caught in a tide and"just not going anywhere" for the last 400 metres of the swim."I was really just pretty numb," she told the BBC soon afterwards in a croaky voice.

 

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