Guest Editorial: Steps Away from Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale Honors Swimming’s Greatest Fraud
If the City of Fort Lauderdale’s International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) ever completes construction of its new home, visitors will be able to learn about the sport’s greatest champions, then walk five minutes to a plaque honoring swimming’s greatest fraud.
Fort Lauderdale unveiled a Florida State Historical Marker for Diana Nyad on November 6. About 100 guests — friends, relatives, politicians, and other admirers — gathered across Highway A1A from Las Olas Beach to hear speeches celebrating the ostensible “first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.”…