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nine are women, and the
latter has fifty-one individual
British swimmers, of which
thirteen are women. ‘After
she stopped swimming Alison
was a Channel pilot,’ explains
Freda, ’but it was too close
for her so she sold her boat,
changed her name and moved
to a farmhouse in Wales.’ But
Freda continues to train
Channel swimmers at Dover
harbour and in 2005 she
herself was inducted in the