Downstream

part of the contest’. She was
the first to pass Hammersmith
Bridge but ‘lacked stamina’
and by halfway was
‘hopelessly out of the race’.
This was a disappointment to
the New York Times, who’d
been eagerly following
Aykroyd’s progress,
promising she was ‘expected
to prove more or less of a
sensation to the Britons’. She
had been swimming ‘almost
since she was able to walk’