Diana Nyad

The Rio Olympics is the first to accept transgender athletes, but no known trans athletes are competing in the summer games. But the possibility of transgender Olympians got our commentator thinking.

Swimming from Cuba to Miami has turned Diana Nyad into a fan of large murals of Cuban street scenes!

On September 2, 2013, Diana Nyad, 64, made it to Key West after swimming 111 miles from Cuba to Florida, becoming the first person to make the crossing without the aid of a shark cage. 

Swimmer Diana Nyad tells us what she's been reading and watching lately.

Legendary swimmer Diana Nyad, who is being honored with the 2011 Streb Action Maverick Award talks about her sport and about being one of the greatest long distance swimmers in the world, and her plans, at the age of 61, to swim from Havana to the Florida coast without a shark tank this summer. In 1979 she swam the longest distance in history, swimming 102.5 miles from Bimini (in the Bahamas) to Florida. She also broke numerous world records, and set a record time circling Manhattan in 7 hours, 57 minutes.

Kurt Andersen and his guest, sports journalist Diana Nyad, look at the art of sports.

Diana Nyad holds the world's record for longest unaided swim in history, for both men and women. She set it in 1979 when she swam 102.5 miles from the island of Bimini to Florida. She's ...