Downstream

swim and swimming kept the
asthma at bay. She said one
day she’d like to try the
Channel and we just laughed.
When she was twelve on
came the news about the
youngest girl to have swum
the Channel and she said,
“that’s one record I can’t
have”.’
But Alison went on to break
many records of her own and
is the first and only woman to
have swum the Channel three