Diana Nyad

This gay thing, this homosexual thing, it's wrong.

Well, it didn't take her long.

It took her a couple of months, but she had that immediate, oh, you know, it's nothing.

I'm French.

You know, everything's cool, to you're not going to be gay.

And it didn't take her long to flip over.

But wait a minute.

What was your response?

Were you horrified?

Well, I mean, it's a lot better, isn't it, than a parent who might go for the rest of your life not expecting you're gay.

She got around to it pretty quickly.

And so we were both kosher with it, you know.

Incredible.

Yeah, well, you know, in sports, there's a real specificity of the parts of the body and the type of training you do.

So for me, I've never been out of shape, but I wasn't a swimmer anymore.

During those 30 years...

From my turning 30 to my turning 60, I was a big bike rider, did a 100-mile bike ride every Friday, did kick-ass gym workouts, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

I was physical, and I was in shape, but I was no longer a swimmer.

And swimmers have very specific muscles, the lats, the shoulders, the triceps, that have nothing to do with your going out and running marathons.

You know, and riding your bike somewhere.