Downstream

pair of sunglasses on his
forehead, he’s crouching in
front of the cabinet, admiring
the cups. ‘We’ve adopted
them,’ he explains, ‘they’re
beautiful, solid silver and we
asked the museum if we
could name our races after
them because we wanted to
create a culture of swimming
in the Thames again. We
thought, blimey, Henley used
to have a swimming club,
they had boomed off areas to