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As the first Black woman to swim for Great Britain, Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell felt the double pressure of being female and the only Black woman poolside.
From winning her first butterfly race as a small girl in Kenya, to winning the 50m and 100m breaststroke events at the British Championships in 2010 to walking away from the sport just before the 2012 Olympics, Rebecca talks about the intensity of the sport in her particular spotlight. Articulate and astute, her story is a true insight into elite swimming, feminism, ambition and appearance-based bias.
Her book These Heavy Black Bones is available from all good booksellers.
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