It is with much interest that I read the article entitled ‘Andre swims from Gozo to Malta… and makes history’ (September 1) and am happy to see the Times of Malta covering this sports event.
While I would like congratulate young Andre on completing this long swim, I feel I owe it to my nine-year-old self to point out that I had completed the swim a week or so before my 10th birthday, and encourage the swim’s organisers to search their records for the swim completed sometime around August 3, 1996, to confirm this.
This should, by no means, make Andre’s swim less worthy as I remember myself how proud my parents and I were when I completed the swim.
I look forward to following his future sporting achievements.