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Endurance athlete Diana Nyad is continuing her bid to swim 103 miles (166km) from Cuba to Florida - after stopping to receive medical treatment.
She was given treatment on a support vessel after being stung, apparently by a jellyfish, around her face and eyes.
The 62-year-old set out from the Cuban capital Havana at 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT) on Friday.
The Los Angeles woman is looking to break her own record for open-water swimming without a shark cage.
Her first attempt at the swim, in August, was cut short by an 11-hour asthma attack.
"She's back in," her team posted on her website, adding that she re-entered the water at 12.20 local time (04:20 GMT) on Sunday. "She is accompanied by three shark divers and the swim has resumed," they wrote.
Earlier, they had posted a message from the International Swim Federation saying that Ms Nyad could continue her record-breaking swim attempt if she had been removed from the water for medical treatment only - and not to rest.
They said that, at just before 20:00 local time, she had been stung "by some kind of presumed jellyfish... her face and eyes and the area around her eyes are affected".
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