Maybe the Anglin brothers may have used Riley Gaines’ recommendation. (Or possibly not? We’ll by no means know.)
Gaines, the previous NCAA swimmer who has since fought for equity in girls’s sports activities, posted on X that she “efficiently swam Alcatraz” on Friday.
The notorious prison-turned-museum sits proper within the bay in San Francisco, and is roughly a 1.25-mile swim to shore.
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“Successfully swam Alcatraz with a handful of essentially the most spectacular Navy Seals & fight veterans. It was such a enjoyable (and chilly) option to honor those that danger their lives for our nice nation. God bless our troops!” she posted.
Gaines then despatched an invite to Keith Olbermann, with whom she’s had social media spats earlier than, to attempt to accomplish the feat along with her subsequent time. “Although, I’m undecided most people desires to see him in a Speedo.”
The jail opened in 1934, however it did not even final 30 years.
Considering its distance to shore, Alcatraz was categorized as virtually escape-proof, though there have been 14 documented tried escapes.
Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines swims the 200 Butterfly prelims on the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March nineteenth, 2022 on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images)
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The most infamous one, although, was the June 11, 1962, escape by John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris, which additionally become a Hollywood film, “Escape from Alcatraz.”
It stays a thriller whether or not the three reached shore and survived, however it was additionally the one deemed the probably to have been profitable, though the FBI concluded the escapees drowned on account of harsh circumstances.
The three prisoners chiseled an escape route from their very own jail cells and constructed makeshift, paper-mache heads.
The last tried escape from the jail, virtually six months later, was the premise of what has now grow to be the swimming route of the “Escape from Alcatraz” triathlon.
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Gaines hosts the “Gaines for Girls” podcast on OutKick, the place she discusses what has occurred with transgender people collaborating in ladies’ and girls’s sports activities.
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