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Jennifer Figge

AP Credits 'First Woman to Swim Atlantic' for Impossible 2,100-mile, 25-day Crossing

By Tom Blumer | February 12, 2009 | 00:40

Well, this sports feat is one for the record books.

Not as a legitimate accomplishment, mind you. No, this story is a leading candidate to win the "Biggest Sports Hoax Ever Swallowed by a Wire Service" prize.

Danica Coto of the Associated Press got duped into believing that 56 year-old Jennifer Figge had completed a 2,100-mile swim across the Atlantic Ocean in a jaw-dropping 25 days (HT to JammieWearingFool via Hot Air Headlines):

56-year-old becomes first woman to swim Atlantic
Feb 8, 12:52 pm EST
Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month.