In this section of the site you can view the profiles of the swimmers taking part in the challenge. Check out these unique super-human candidates!
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Administrator & Part-Time Swimming Coach
I’m the late arrival for the swim. I’ve been swimming for too long but this is by far my biggest challenge and I’m really looking forward to it. I mean what better way to get to your first ever Bestival and raise a load of money for some great causes at the same time.
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Bicycle Repairs.
Today I am swimming because….no it’s gone!
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Student
I'm very excited about the swim and am looking forward to getting covered in grease all in the name of charity! I have been having cold showers in preparation for the swim and will be visiting the local aquarium to help me prepare for swimming with all the fish!
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189 Dog years
Full time Dog - includes-Scratching, Sniffing others' bums, cocking the old leg, chewing furniture and running off with shoes.
Cold baths/showers, endless lengths in pools and lidos-alone, cold, wet, sore! 3 miles BRING IT ON - We're Going to Swim to Bestival! It's a dogs life! Can't wait-At least you can see IOW from the start!! Colin - Hularama.
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Radio Producer
I'm afraid of the sea… I'm hoping that’s going to help me swim fast
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Freelance Journalist
Hello, my name is Kate Spicer, and I just got back from a weekend in Ibiza. So make your own mind up about how I feel about swimming the Solent - put it this way, it's going to be a crafty bit of summer management that gets this vessel ship shape for this terrifying but exciting end to summer.
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Swimming to Bestival is madness, but the festival is madness anyway so looks like it all makes sense. I’m just hoping for good weather and weak currents.
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Gymnastics Coach
Aside from being part of Hularama, I am 6 times Olympic Gold Medalist swimming champion, taking my first gold in Los Angeles back in ‘84 at the tender age of just 5 years old. Following this I have been voted world swimmers swimmer of the year 22 years consecutively. However this all seems insignificant when provided the opportunity to SWIM TO BESTIVAL for charity! It’s got YES written all over it. Most recent achievement: Pool Frog level 1.
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As a boy I would look over the Solent at the IOW and boast to my friends "I could swim that" this September... we will find out who was right!
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Nervous and excited about the thought of swimming the Solent in what can only be the Best way to arrive at Bestival!
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1/2 Irish
Hi my names Lee, I'm a big swimmer and I'm about to embark on a very big bestival swim!! I think Big, I drink Big, I eat Big, sleep Big and smell Big. With the honed art of doddy paddle under my belt, I've out swam men much Bigger then myself. Days don’t ever come as big as this…WHAT A BIG DAY!!!
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Plasterer
Love Life, Love Swimming, Love Raising Money for Charity, Love Festivals, gonna love swimming to big Bestival! PROPER!
Goats cheese pasta! (Hmmmmmm)
