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How Alick Wickham helped introduce freestyle swimming to the world

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On an autumn morning in 1901, a 14-year-old boy named Alick Wickham dived into a Sydney pool and swam a race that would change the course of sporting history.

Bronte Baths, a picturesque ocean pool hacked into sandstone cliffs, was hosting the Eastern Suburbs Swimming Carnival and Wickham was…



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