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Fri 02 Feb 2010"I can't straighten my fingers" - McGowan
ROWING SOLO ATLANTIC CROSSING: FOR 90 minutes of each two-hour period today, Seán McGowan will tie his claw-like hands to his oars and attempt to propel his small rowing boat a little closer to the Americas.
“I can’t straighten my fingers. The pain in them wakens me at night. I strap the fingers to the oars with some webbing,” he explained yesterday. The pain, he says, is like “a ball hitting the top of your fingers”.
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