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Tanvi Deore rekindled her passion for swimming after 18 years and overcame every challenge to swim across the English Channel.

Nashik-based Tanvi Deore (33) rekindled her passion for swimming after an 18-year hiatus to fulfil her childhood dream of swimming the English Channel. Despite facing physical, mental, and logistical challenges, here’s how she successfully completed the 33-kilometre swim.

“It was very early on in life that I developed an interest in swimming. I remember there were so many villagers who would ask me how and why I am swimming but it was something that I enjoyed doing and therefore continued with it,” he recollects.

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“I wished that it would get over quickly, but quitting was never an option. The discomfort only made me swim faster and better."

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