Downstream

150,000 enthusiasts, using the
‘space-devouring underhand
Australian stroke’. Her motto
was ‘Do or Die!’, which she
shouted out at the beginning
of each swim. The problem
with the fifteen-mile course
from Richmond, however,
was cramp; ‘at the start she
was kicked in the stomach but
she did not feel any effect
until later’. But the following
year Aykroyd won the Boston
Light Swim, from