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One-legged Italian to try record swim

Lost leg to a tumour, will become 'human lab'

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Rome, April 4 - A one-legged 52-year-old Italian man is to try a record swim from Cuba to Key West in September.
    Salvatore Cimmino, from Torre Annunziata, lost his leg to a tumour at the age of 15.
    He will be monitored by Rome's Campus Biomedico during the 166-km swim, becoming what has been called a "human laboratory" for biomedical science.
    He is expected to take some 60 hours to complete the swim.
   

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