Burbank teen to swim 25 miles to raise donations for combating food insecurity in SoCal
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BURBANK, Calif. (KABC) A North Hollywood teen has a goal to outswim hunger and she s doing it by swimming 25 miles this weekend.
Edie Markovich, 15, is training for the most difficult swim of her life: 25 miles of continuous swimming in one of the 25-yard lanes at the Verdugo Aquatic Facility in Burbank. I m very excited but not nervous. I m confident that everything is going to go well, Markovich said.
This isn t a competition, and Markovich isn t swimming to set a record. Instead, she s raising money for thousands of people in Southern California suffering from food insecurity.
Dec 29, 2020
The postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has upended a carefully planned sporting calendar calibrated to line up with the Summer Games.
When the decision was taken in March to delay the games for safety reasons, nearly half of the athletes that had hoped to be in Tokyo for the Olympics still did not know for sure, and were immediately put in limbo.
As much of the world instituted strict lockdowns earlier in the year, to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, professional and elite sport events around the world had been cancelled.