Dearing will be Britain’s first black female swimmer at Olympics‘Decades of
racism has seeped into swimming community’Alice Dearing, the first black female swimmer to represent
Britain at the Olympics, said on Friday that years of cultural and institutional racism had held up the progress of ethnic minorities in the sport.
The Loughborough University graduate, who has been selected for the 10km open water race in Tokyo next month, added that although she had generally enjoyed a very positive experience in the sport, she had personally been the subject of racism.