but this one-arm wonder is a tough act to follow from the Times Online
“It was 2am and all was dark apart from the glow of a lantern on the rowing boat that was to be Eileen Fenton%u2019s constant companion for the next 15 hours. As she set off on her journey from Cap Gris Nez, near Calais, the water was cold, the air crisp and the challenge substantial.
On that morning in August 1950, Fenton, a 21-year-old religious studies teacher from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, was one of 24 swimmers, a third of them women, taking part in the first cross-Channel swimming race.”
(Via Cross-Channel swimming race is back – but this one-arm wonder is a tough act to follow – Times Online: .)
