The Wales rugby legend will take on the Olympic distance event around the iconic town to raise further awareness for his trailblazing Tackle HIV campaign, delivered in partnership with ViiV Healthcare and Terrence Higgins Trust and aiming to tackle the stigma and misunderstanding around HIV. Thomas, 49, completed an Ironman triathlon in 2019 having never learned to swim as a child. “With all of the challenges we’ve done, I have always said if they are easy, they aren’t challenges,” said the Bridgend native.
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twitter.com/WmnoEYoyQp “And they won’t grab people’s attention – which is what we want to do because we’ve got a message to tell them. “Swimming, water I will never be comfortable with, I never have been, it is something that I have to overcome.
“Going into Sunday I am very anxious about the swim, this isn’t like swimming in the Mediterranean Sea where it is crystal blue, this is the Thames! “Swimming in the Thames is always a challenge with the current and the fact that this is a flowing, living river” “But you have to do something that pushes you, for the understanding as to why you are doing it and to be motivated by the fear, and to grab people’s attention.�.
