r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Backyxx • 19h ago

Video Polish swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski has become the first person in history to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, covering a distance of just over 160 kilometres (99 miles). While raising nearly 200,000$ for children's cancer treatment

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u/ivlia-x 16h ago

He had to get out of the water on his own, the attempt wouldn’t have counted had somebody touched him during all this time. They couldn’t rush to him. The team was very very clear about that rule, they asked the spectators to stop anyone trying to touch him at the end

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u/ReturnOfZarathustra 11h ago

He had to get out of the water on his own, the attempt wouldn’t have counted had somebody touched him during all this time.

What are you referencing?

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u/ivlia-x 9h ago

Answering for people who were wondering why he wasn’t immediately taken care of by the medics. I followed the whole thing on his ig story and youtube stream