英70歲老翁橫渡英吉利 破世界紀錄
Retired surgeon Roger Allsopp becomes the oldest man to swim Channel。
英國退休外科醫生羅傑·艾索普打破吉尼斯世界紀錄，成爲橫渡英吉利海峽的人中最老的一位。
Daring grandad Roger Allsopp has succeeded in his bid to become the oldest person ever to swim the English Channel.
已經是身爲爺爺的羅傑·艾索普成功地成爲了橫渡英吉利海峽的人中最老的一位。
Just after 2.15 am the retired breast cancer surgeon, who worked in Southampton, reached Cap Gris, in France, after a 18-hour swim that started in Dover at 8 am yesterday morning.
昨天早晨8點鐘從多佛出發，經過18個小時的鏖戰，這位在南安普頓工作的，已經退休了的乳腺癌外科醫生，在今早2點15分剛過，順利抵達了法國的“白鼻角”。
At 70 years and four months old, the unstoppable granddad-of-three has beaten the current Guinness World Record held by George Brunstad, who was 70 years and four days old.
艾索普今年70歲4個月，是三個孩子的爺爺，這位老爺爺勢不可擋，成功擊敗了之前的吉尼斯世界記錄保持者，也就是70歲零4天的（美國退休機長）喬治·布倫斯塔德。
It comes exactly five years after he became the oldest Briton to swim the Channel, which although is around 23 miles, due to tides, Roger was forced to swim almost double that.
五年前他成爲了橫渡英吉利海峽最老的英國人。儘管英吉利海峽大約有23英里，但是此次橫渡由於潮汐的原因，羅傑被迫多遊了一倍的路程。
His inspiration this time to plunge into the icy water is to fund pioneering research at the University of Southampton that could lead to the development of a blood test to detectcancer at the earliest possible stage.
這次讓他扎進冰冷海水的動力是爲南安普頓大學的癌症開創研究籌集資金，以推動血液測試的研究從而在癌症的最早期階段將其發現。
Roger, who worked at the Royal South Hants Hospital, hopes to raise 100,000 towards a new 750,000 spectrometer to help further cancer research at the university.
羅傑曾在皇家南漢普郡醫院工作。他希望募集10萬英鎊從而幫助南安普頓大學購買價值75萬英鎊的分光計設備，從而推動癌症研究的新發展。
看面相，這位老爺爺是多麼的慈祥啊~~想想我們70歲的時候是怎樣的一副老胳膊老腿啊，也還會如此身強體健嗎？要堅持鍛鍊身體的呀~~
