was a significant one for
women: they were allowed
for the first time to compete
in Olympic swimming and
diving events. Diving had
become an Olympic sport for
men in 1904, and swimming
in 1908, but it was only at the
Olympic Games in
Stockholm in 1912 that
women could take part and
when Londoner Mary Belle
White won bronze in the ten-
metre platform event.
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