Havana, June 5, 2025 (AFP) - 'The sea rejuvenates you': Cuban seniors defy aging by diving in

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2025-06-05
It's never too late to make a splash, as Orestes Quintana, one of the doyens of the Juventud Acumulada (Forever Young) swimming club in Cuba's capital Havana discovered. The 87-year-old former revolutionary, who helped Fidel Castro fight his way to victory over a dictatorship in 1959, took up swimming relatively late in life, in his sixties. Before that, "I knew how to float, I used to bob about in the water like everyone else but I didn't know t......
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