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The last time we ran into American swimmer Eleanor Holm, she was being unceremoniously booted off the 1936 Olympic squad for either being catatonically drunk or refusing to sleep with the president of the American Olympic Committee, noted asshole Avery Brundage. It depends on who you ask. At the time, Holm was a reasonably big deal. Having won gold in women’s 100m backstroke four years earlier in Los Angeles, she was favored to repeat in Berlin. That, obviously, didn’t happen, but she did parlay her sporting success into a career as a minor celebrity, which included a starring role in the 1938 film