Slovenian Martin Strel completed his swim of the entire 5,265-kilometer (3,272-mile) Amazon River on Saturday, a 65-day odyssey in which he battled exhaustion and delirium while trying to avoid flesh-eating piranhas and the dreaded bloodsucking toothpick fish. Averaging about 80 kilometers (50 miles) a day since he started stroking in the Amazon's Peruvian headwaters on Feb. 1, Strel fulfilled his goal near the city of Belem, 2,440 kilometers (1,515 miles) north of Rio de Janeiro. If confirmed by Guinness World Records, it will be the fourth time the 52-year-old has broken a world swimming distance record, according to AP. «He's hit point zero,» Martin's son and project coordinator, Borut Strel, said by telephone from the Amazon, the world's second-longest river after the Nile. «There will be a ceremony Sunday in Belem, but he finished today.» -- SPA
