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‘British National Arena’
included a six-day Olympic
Games, with one day devoted
to ‘feats in swimming and
other aquatic exertions’. The
twenty-four-acre site would
be a place for ‘manly and
defensive exercises,
equestrian, chivalric and
aquatic games and skilful and
amusing pastimes’. The art of
swimming, wrote Random,
was ‘so much neglected,
although so truly an