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<p>In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is helped to shore and a welcome from her team after swimming a short distance from a support boat Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, in Key West, Fla. Nyad failed in a fourth attempt to complete a swim across the Florida Straits from Cuba to the Florida Keys. The 63-year-old Nyad said she was disappointed but didn't feel there was anything she could have done better. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman)</p>

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Storms, jellyfish end Cuba-to-Florida swim
August 22, 2012 9:15 p.m.

Storms, jellyfish end Cuba-to-Florida swim

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt to swim across the Straits of Florida on Tuesday, her decades-old dream thwarted, more than anything else, by jellyfish.