JOURNALIST
DIANA NYAD
A broadcast journalist for 20 years, Diana Nyad filed numerous reports for National Public Radio during the Beijing Olympic Games, as a commentator at Santa Monica, Calif.'s KCRW (where she is host of The Score) and a sports business reporter for public radio's Marketplace. Among them was one on the freakish talents of gold medal swimmers Michael Phelps and Dara Torres, and a poignant piece on the heartbreaking disaster for athletes who prepare for a decade only to have a mishap crush their dreams in a hundredth of a second. She still holds the world record for the longest swim in history, an unfathomable 102.5 miles nonstop!This year Nyad has used her status as an International Swimming Hall of Fame icon to launch (with Bonnie Stoll) a fitness movement for women over 40, BravaBody.com. When Nyad boldly announces that her new venture will raise the collective self-esteem of women above the shame they feel about their bodies, you tend to believe her.
