The true story of competitive swimmer Trudy Ederle who became the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel in 1926.
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When Trudy is young and suffering with the measles she bears witness to a disaster of ferry capsizing and this pushes her mother Gertrude to ensure that Trudy and her siblings Meg and Henry Jr learn how to swim for survival. Trudy despite her illness becomes obsessed with swimming and wants to practice as much as possible. When she manages to join the Women’s Swimming Association with her sister Meg they really do start to enjoy it more and Trudy gets a chance to take part in the 1924 Paris Olympics.
During this and the sexist coach who hampered the team with poor training, meant that Trudy only won a bronze in the 400m freestyle despite having more potential than that. She then decided that it wasn’t enough to just either give up on swimming or wait the four years for the next Olympics that she would actually go and try to swim the English Channel. At that point it had never been achieved by a woman.
We get to see the tough nature of such a challenge and all of those who wanted to see Trudy fail, but given that it spurs her on even more wanting to be the first and the best.
While it was obviously nice to highlight this story and show what was achieved, it has come too close to the release of Nyad last year which is very similar in the sense of the swimming theme. Straight to Disney+ as well with Daisy Ridley in the leading role but I guess it is lacklustre at times.
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So funny you posted this today. I was looking for a little inspiration and I finished this about 20 minutes ago. I thought it was a good film, but yes my first thought was Nyad. Like Nyad, I enjoyed the movie, although I’m glad I didn’t pay for it in theaters. Her training situation both to cross the English Channel and for the Olympics highlighted just our divisive our world and sports can be, but that we can move beyond. I would recommend this one to a friend.
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I watched this a while ago, but had a backlog of reviews. I just felt it needed to have more in it, as surely in the 1920s the training would have been even more difficult that it showed on here.
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Keep reviewing, I enjoy them.
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