Downstream

(Jeff_L) #1

on 20 August she was struck
by a bout of ‘Thames
tummy’. A couple of weeks
later I read that she
successfully ended her 155-
mile swim at Putney Bridge
on 7 September. That makes
her the first woman ever
recorded to have swum this
far, but, unlike the champion
women who came before her,
the press coverage has been
virtually non-existent and I
haven’t found a single report

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