Alice Dearing Quotes
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Being a poster girl for black swimming is exciting, because genuinely I love the sport and I want to see as many people doing it as possible.
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A lot of black people think they never learned how to swim and turned out fine so they don’t need to teach their children. Obviously there are a lot of flaws with that argument, but if that’s being repeated to a whole generation – that swimming is not for you – then obviously it’s going to trickle down.
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Things need to speed up absolutely everywhere. You can’t just have elite swimmers come from absolutely nowhere. So our focus is on the learn-to-swim side.
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To be honest I don’t want to always be referred to as the black swimmer from Britain. I want to be known for my achievements. But perhaps it is necessary if it helps inspire another child to get in the pool, aged eight, and to just give it a go.