Kelowna ultra-endurance athlete Nick Pelletier has called it quits halfway into his journey across the fraught waters of the Molokoi Channel.
“I had to get pulled from the swim jellyfish stings, and I took on so much water in my lungs,” Pelletier said in a clip posted to his social media, showing dozens of abrasions he said are caused by jellyfish stings.
“I’ve said it before when I failed and I will say it again, I will be back. I don’t know what discipline it will be in, but it will be big. So, thank you all for the support but stay tuned.” Pelletier started swimming the 42-kilometer stretch between the islands of Molokai and Oahu at around 9 a.m. Monday.top news stories from Canada and around the world.
He had successfully made it through nighttime darkness, powerful ocean currents, and an abundance of marine life before his team called an end to the journey, according to his social media account, through which he’s been documenting his journey.But when he spoke to Global News in February, he pointed out that he learned just as much if not more from his losses than his successes.
“It just made me a lot better swimmer because if I were to squeak it out the first time, I wouldn’t have learned all the lessons and done all the things that got me to point,” he said.Most bed bug ridden cities across Canada are in Ontario.
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