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[edit] Norway and Sweden

The bit where is says 'swam from Norway to Sweden'. Now, I may be missing something here, but since the two countries are joined by land, you'd only have to walk into the water at the border of one, swim a few metres, then wade back to land to have swum from one to the other. I strongly suspect this is a mistake, and have found references to her swimming from Denmark to Sweden in nes stories. If she swam the Oresund and Skaggerak, that would, I believe, mean she swam from Denmark to Sweden. Average Earthman 14:25, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Bering Strait

The article doesn't say exactly when Ms. Cox swam in the Bering strait but it must have occurred sometime between March 1985 and January 1989. Is this the "height of the Cold War" exactly? -Frank Burdett


The phrase "height of the Cold War" is as overused as they come. I'm nuking it. And Random House, in a page on her book, says it was 1987.

[edit] Birthdate?

Seems she was born sometime in 1967...but shouldn't an entry like this have a birthdate?

http://www.ishof.org/00lcox.html

I'm going to put (born 1957). Mike H 16:59, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Relatives, mm?

Big Diomede, I've heard, has been empty since the second World War, when the Russians sent the local population away...--VKokielov 22:12, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Lynne Cox has a book titled swimming to Antarctica...all the facts are in the book

[edit] praise from gorbachev and reagan

This sentence has been in the article for a long time: Even more remarkably, her accomplishment eased Cold War tensions as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Washington, DC to jointly congratulate her success.

I did a newspaper search, and it seems misleading -- both world leaders did separately praise Cox, whose Bering Strait swim came on the eve of a Soviet-US summit, but the men did not meet specifically to honor Cox as this phrasing suggests. I've changed the sentence and added refs. If this did occur and someone has references, pls feel free to add it back in -- I haven't read her book yet, either. phoebe / (talk) 14:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)