Britain’s best in the open water shares her experiences of racism in swimming and how she is breaking barriers for black people to take up the sport
It sounds scarcely believable in modern, multiracial Britain but nearly a century after the sprinter Jack London became the first black athlete to win an Olympic medal for Britain in 1928, and more than 40 years since Viv Anderson became the first black footballer to start for England, Team GB has never sent a black swimmer to an Olympic Games. Not one.
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