Interview with 1948 Olympic fencer, and others

[debrobjosh]

Found this in the Guardian newspaper:

It was the youth of the world getting together
As Britain's Olympic team head for Beijing, Emine Saner meets six members of the 1948 squad - from the 77-year-old swimmer who darned her costume before the race, to the 87-year-old cyclist who rode a £10 steel-framed bike.

Includes a short piece on fencer Dame Mary Glen Haig, 89, who was a finalist in the 1948 games. I like the last lines of her interview:
It must have been hard to give fencing up. "I haven't given up for very long," she says. "Maybe 10 or 15 years ago. You have, I think, to let your body slow down."

[KD5MDK]

My first reading was that for some strang WWII related reason, a 77yr old swimmer was competing in 1948. Then I realized that's what their age is now...