Pain beats Coutts
NZPA staff correspondent London The Hawke's Bav marathon swimmer. John Coutts, has failed in his attempt to swim the English Channel and break the record. Coutts. aged 21. a former Olympic and Commonwealth Games butterfly swimmer, was taken from the water on Sundav after only 2J hours after making good time on his first attempt at the crossing. Believed to be suffering from two small hairline fractures in his right foot. Coutts entered the water hoping the injury would not affect him. but increasing pain made the com-
pletion of the swim impossible “He was obviously in agony. ’ Mrs Ray Scott, secretary of the Channel Swimmers’ Association told the NZPA. “It got to the stage where he was starting to black out from the pain while he was tn the water and we had to take him out.” Coutts was on target for the 7hr 42min record set late last month by a 23-year-old Californian. Penny Dean, before being forced to stop. Four swimmers successfully completed the crossing at the week-end among them the (“King of the Channel." Des ißenford (Australia;, making bis 1 twelfth crossing.
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