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First woman to swim around Hong Kong’s Lantau Island defies her age

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First woman to swim around Hong Kong’s Lantau Island defies her age


“Youth is overrated” is a mantra empowering open water swimmer Edie Hu to break records at 50 years of age.

On November 20, the Hong Kong art dealer set off from the Disneyland Resort Pier to circumnavigate Lantau – Hong Kong’s largest island – in a tandem swim with friends Simon Holliday, 46, the founder of the Splash Foundation, and Brett Kruse.

They were all attempting a world-first: no one had managed to circumnavigate the island before.

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