Less than 300 metres from shore, with thunder and lightening crashing around her, 14-year-old Maya Farrell was forced to abandon her attempt to be the youngest swimmer ever to cross Lake Ontario. “I left it as long as I possibly could,” he said by phone from Maya's support boat, while the storm still raged around them. With Farrell swimming into the teeth of a storm after nearly 24 gruelling hours in the water, swim master Miguel Vadillo said he was forced to call off the swim for Maya's safety. Had Farrell succeeded in reaching the tip of the Leslie Street Spit, she would have claimed the record by a mere few weeks over current titleholder Trinity Arsenault. She threw up a few times, and is totally exhausted,” Vadillo said.

Source: thestar July 28, 2016 00:33 UTC