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us had her ambition’. She has
only swum once in the
Thames herself, at
Maidenhead sixty-five years
ago with friends, when she
remembers getting tangled up
in reeds. And today she no
longer swims in public pools,
because ‘I’ve become
sensitised to chlorine’.
Doloranda is immensely
proud of the way Mercedes
managed her own career and
the fact that her ‘endurance