Downstream

swimmers, but
controversially disqualified
American Gertrude Ederle on
her first attempt when he
ordered another swimmer to
take her out of the water.
Wolffe claimed she’d
collapsed, which was
disputed by several
eyewitnesses, as well as
Ederle herself. But in 1926
the ‘Queen of the Waves’
would become the first
woman to swim across the