Downstream

see the bottom.’ However,
like other long-distance
Thames swimmers, he did get
sick. ‘I went to hospital twice,
the doctors weren’t really
willing to say what exactly
was wrong, some people
thought it was some sort of
amoebic dysentery, but your
medical system is different
from the US and folks in the
UK don’t worry about that
sort of thing too much. In the
US I would have gone