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work’. Swimming she
concluded ‘will make the thin
women fat and the fat women
thin’.
Swimming was also the
only sport in which women
were ‘catching up’ with men;
in long-distance swimming
women’s world records came
within 10 per cent of
equalling men, while in
running it was 73 per cent
and in ‘strength’ events it was
60 per cent. In addition,