Swimming: Joel Matos breaks record after swimming more than 200 kilometers

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The Puerto Rican achieved the challenge supported by a social cause.

The swimmer Puerto Rican Joel Matos broke a new record swimming 200 kilometers in a 50 meter pool, The athlete revealed to the Antena 3 outlet that he swam 29,000 meters a day and reached three hundred thousand strokes.

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To achieve the challenge, he spent ten hours a day swimming for a week in a row, thus demonstrating his abilities as an athlete that have already come to light on more than one occasion, since he has already achieved other historical achievements for swimming, including when he crossed the Channel La Mancha, Surrounded the Island of Manhattan and it was from Los Angeles to Saint Catherine.

bushes He explained that while he is carrying out these activities he cannot get out of the water at any time, they cannot touch him, and, in fact, he cannot touch the boat that accompanies him either. To feed himself, he informs that they throw him a bottle with a shake that has all the proteins and vitamins he needs, he must consume it right there in the water and continue with the challenge.

This achievement is even more relevant considering that there is a social reason behind it, since the event was organized by Special Olympics Puerto Rico, an organization that works for inclusion.