My friend just announced that her grandfather swam in the Olympics, when the swimming competion was done in the Hudson River. She is 40.
What does she mean by this? I don't think any Olympics were in NY, but could they have trained there? Or is she fibbing? :joker:
Just curious...SmartSwimmeroftheDay award to the person who knows!
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One of the more vexing items that I've seen re-printed many times is the stat that Gertrude Ederle broke 7 World Records in one afternoon in 1922 at Brighton Beach in one 500 meter swim. I have never found any back up to this and having been out there many times with my swimmers we are confounded on just what she did--swim buoy to buoy? It certainly isn't pier to pier that's a half mile. And what 4 records were broken during the same swim? 100, 200, 220, 400? Which leads to the assumption that they counted record swims in the open water (actually ocean).
Write to the ISHOF and ask them. www.ishof.org
They've got an extensive library of old newspaper clippings and other swimming-related publications.
One of the more vexing items that I've seen re-printed many times is the stat that Gertrude Ederle broke 7 World Records in one afternoon in 1922 at Brighton Beach in one 500 meter swim. I have never found any back up to this and having been out there many times with my swimmers we are confounded on just what she did--swim buoy to buoy? It certainly isn't pier to pier that's a half mile. And what 4 records were broken during the same swim? 100, 200, 220, 400? Which leads to the assumption that they counted record swims in the open water (actually ocean).
Write to the ISHOF and ask them. www.ishof.org
They've got an extensive library of old newspaper clippings and other swimming-related publications.
