Swim: The astonishing tale of Lucy Morton

Olympic Games, Paris 1924: British swimmer Lucy Morton is very ambitious. Winning gold in an individual event mean’s she’ll have beaten her American rivals, who always sweep the board, and at the ripe old age of 26 will be a veteran of the sport; if Lucy wins, she’ll have triumphed against the odds because 48 hours earlier she was in a car accident that knocked her out cold, cracked her rib, and cost her five teeth. Whatever the outcome, Lucy will have come a long way from the ten-year-old kid who, at the age of ten, nearly drowned the first time she tried to swim. This is the story of a pioneering British woman who represented her country at a time when male athletes outnumbered female competitors by 22 to one.

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Language: English