Olympian aims to become 1st woman to complete gruelling swim in honour of father

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When Elizabeth Beisel's dad got the awful news — pancreatic cancer — the Olympic swimming medallist knew she had to do something, anything, that would give him a reason to get up every morning. She decided she would swim to Block Island — nearly 10-½ miles (16.9 kilometres) from the mainland