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52-year-old finishes nine-week swim of Amazon
》 ENDURANCE SPORTS
BY PETER MUELLO ASSOCIATED PRESS
By Thursday evening, he was struggling with dizziness, vertigo, high blood pressure, diarrhea, nausea and delirium, his Web site said. But despite having difficulty standing and being ordered by the doctor not to swim, Strel was obsessed with finishing the course and insisted on night swimming.
After nine weeks, Martin Strel arrived near the city of Belem, the capital of the jungle state of Para, ending a swim almost as long as the drive from Miami to Seattle. Strel averaged about 50 miles a day since beginning his odyssey at the source of the world's second-longest river in Peru on Feb. 1.
"He's hit point zero," Borut Strel, Martin's son and the project coor-
Speaking in fluent accented English by satellite phone during a break aboard his support vessel, the elder Strel that the going got tougher the closer he got to Belem.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance — something he's already done three times before.
"The finish has been the toughest moment so far," he said Thursday. "I've been swimming fewer kilometers as I get closer to the end. The ocean tides have a lot of influence on the river's currents and sometimes they are so strong that I am pushed backward."
"I think the animals have just accepted me," he said. "I've been swimming with them for such a long time that they must think I'm one of them now. I still have dolphins swimming with我."
diarrhea, chronic insomnia, larvae infections, dehydration and abrasions caused by the constant rubbing of his wet suit against his skin frequently tormented him.
To cope with the delirium and other problems, Strel said he turned to his doctor.
Strel, who lost some 26 pounds, said there were times he felt such pain in his arms, chest and legs, "that I could not get out of the water on my own."
He said he was lucky to have escaped encounters with piranhas, the dreaded toothpick fish, which swims into body orifices to suck blood, and even bull sharks that swim in shallow waters and can live for a while in fresh water.
Cramps, high blood pressure.
"My doctor, who is a psychotherapist, talks to me, asks about my pains and redirects my thinking to other things," Strel said. "It definitely helps to have someone to talk to when I'm not in the water, even though sometimes I fall asleep while she is talking."
Sunburn was Strel's biggest problem in the first half of his adventure.
Just days after he began his swim, Strel developed second-degree burns on his face and forehead, and his team feared the burns would worsen and become infected.
His team fashioned a mask out of a pillow case for protection, but Strel did not use it all the time.
dinator, said by telephone from the Amazon. "There will be a ceremony Sunday in Beem, but he finished today."
James Blake reaches for a return during his Davis Cup World Group quarterfinal tennis match against Spain's Feliciano Lopez in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Sunday. The United States will face Sweden in September.
A decisive win over Spain in front of a partisan crowd left the Americans confident they'll end their 12-year Davis Cup drought.
U.S. secures spot in Davis Cup semifinals against Sweden
Coupled with Friday's singles victories by Roddick and Blake, it gave the United States an insurmountable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five event, putting the Americans a step closer to their first Davis Cup title since 1995.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Andy Roddick invited the fans to party with him, James Blake sounded confident and Bob Bryan went as far as to predict a title.
BY MIKE CRANSTON ASSOCIATED PRESS
The United States secured a spot in the semifinals on Saturday when the top-ranked doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan beat Spain's Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco 7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5).
"Yes, this is our year," Bob Bryan said, drawing a roar from the sellout crowd of more than 14,000.
After dropping the third set on the fast, indoor hard court, the
"They've been our rock every time out. Every time I've been on the team, they've given us a win," Blake said. "It's a lock, and it feels so good to have that."
The Bryans improved to 11-1 in the Davis Cup with a harder-than-expected match against an inexperienced team. They sealed the match on Bob Bryan's volley at the net, two points after Mike Bryan's net cord on Lopez's serve gave the United States a 6-4 lead.
The brothers immediately
"We feel good. Going to Sweden is a tough match, but they have tough decisions to make about what surface to play us on." U.S. captain Patrick McEnroe said. "We've got a great chance... hopefully that match to win and one more."
Bryans survived two break points at 4-4 in the fourth set before closing it out in the tiebreaker.
The United States eliminated a Spanish squad weakened by the absence of Rafael Nadal and will next play at Sweden on Sept. 21-23. Sweden downed Argentina 3-0 on Saturday. In other quarterfinals, Germany ousted Belgium 3-0, and Russia won its doubles match to lead France 2-1.
With Nadal home resting a sore foot, the United States took a 2-0 lead on Friday when Roddick beat Verdasco and Blake beat Tommy Robredo, Roddick and Blake watched the doubles match from the team area, and both took turns taking laps with the American flag.
Sunday's reverse singles matches against Spain were rendered meaningless and will likely be reduced to best-of-three sets. McEron said Roddick, recovering from a strained left hamstring, would not play. Blake will be joined by one of the Bryan brothers.
The Bryans have won 36 doubles titles and five Grand Slams.
"I was so nervous there." Roddick said to the fans. "But we're all going out tonight so come along and join us. What do you think?"
embraced after the winning point, setting off a flag-waving celebration. The outcome provided a bit of revenge for the United States _ Spain beat the Americans in the 2004 final on clay.
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