Olá a todos,
Primeiro gostava de agradecer ao meu irmão Filipe a disponibilidade para ir actualizando o blog pois eu passei a manhã a operar e sem acesso à net.
E agora os muito merecidos parabens ao meu querido Miguel!! Ele falou-me pouco tempo depois de ter terminado a prova e estava todo contente com o tempo e com a travessia. Os dois primeiros nadadores eram ambos Tunisinos, sendo que um deles já é visto como o sucessor de Oussama Mellouli - o nadador olímpico Tunisino que em Pequim venceu a primeira medalha de ouro de sempre para o seu país na prova de 1.500m. A conversa foi breve porque tarifários de roaming à parte os primeiros 4 nadadores tinham de ir fazer o teste anti-doping.
E mais uma vez obrigado a todos pelo apoio e os comentários. O Miguel não tem tido acesso à net desde que chegou à Tunisia. Talvez ao regressar a Tunis na 6ª consiga um bocadinho para poder responder por intermédio do blog a todos.
Assim que houver mais novidades informar-vos-ei!!
Mariana
Dear all,
Thanks again to my brother for posting all the latest news on the blog during today's swim. I was in surgery all morning (the blunt end of the scalpel though!!) and so was only able to relay messages from Tunisia to Filipe.
Isn't Miguel just great? He called me shortly after completing the swim to say that he was so pleased both with the time and with the swim in general. The first two swimmers to finish were both Tunisians making him the first of the gust swimmers to arrive. One of these Tunisian swimmers is being hailed as Oussama Mellouli's "heir" (Mellouli won the Olympic Gold in Beijing for the 1.500m, bringing Tunisia it's first ever gold medal) so Miguel was really pleased to be so close. Our conversation was brief as the first 4 swimmers to finish were being drug's tested as part of the anti-doping protocol of the Dialogue Across the Seas Project.
Hopefully once Miguel returns to Tunis on Friday he will be able to access the internet and answer all of your comments and post some news himself. Until then I will try to keep the blog updated and current.
Thanks again everone!!
Mariana