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Olympics-Swimming-Black swimmers still under-represented in the pool
FILE PHOTO: Jun 20, 2021; Omaha, Nebraska, USA; Simone Manuel reacts after winning the women s 50m freestyle final during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials Swimming competition at CHI Health Center Omaha. Mandatory Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo
July 15, 2021
By Alan Baldwin
LONDON (Reuters) – When Alice Dearing earned her ticket to Tokyo 2020 as the first Black female swimmer to represent Britain at an Olympics, she spoke of “decades and decades of historical and cultural racism” in the sport.
The 24-year-old student will be only the third Black British swimmer ever to compete for an Olympic medal.
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CAMPAIGNERS from the region have urged the Government to take action to reduce the number of accidental deaths in water by better educating children on its dangers. Newcastle North MP Catherine McKinnell, who chairs the petitions committee in Parliament, led a debate in Westminster on Monday night. She pressed Ministers to improve the provision of water safety education in the curriculum, highlighting that “when it comes to safety knowledge is power, and education saves lives, but what we are missing is any universal availability of this life-saving knowledge.” To show what a difference this knowledge can make, she highlighted the case of Evan Chrisp from Newcastle who survived being swept into the North Sea just by remembering the ‘float to live’ technique he’d seen on minute-long advert at a cinema.
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