Downstream

Lodewijk Ooms. Jarvis, then
in his mid-thirties, had begun
racing at sixteen, and had
been the leading world
middle- and long-distance
swimming champion between
1898 and 1902, winning
numerous ‘world
championships’ at European
events. At the 1900 Olympiad
in Paris he won the 1,000
metres in the River Seine. But
by the 1906 Olympic Games
in Athens he was ‘past his