Splash! Ethelda Bleibtrey Makes Waves of Change by Elisa Boxer
Splash! Ethelda Bleibtrey Makes Waves of Change by Elisa Boxer
Illustrator: Elizabeth Baddeley
Ethelda Bleibtrey was a girl with guts who loved the water. As a child with polio in the early 1900s, swimming set her free. The water released her from her pain and helped her build strong muscle–and a powerful spirit. From then on, from the New York beaches to the choppy waters of the 1920 Olympics to the Central Park Reservoir, Ethelda made a splash wherever…
remember Donny and Anne's girl I drew at the sketch requests?
Well I love her so much I wanted to draw her as holy knight apprentice . I also thought about a name, I think about Etheldreda, Ethelda or Etheldred.
I love her so much I realy want to have her in my fanfiction and she will be Donny's daughter and a friend of Galahad, Constantine and Loh.
She got some power like Gilthunder and he teaches her too.
the boy on the left is Mordred with his sacred weapon Tywill Haul;
(in his realm he is able to talk)
his magic power is called "Wish Realm" It's a magic born of Chaos, and probably the only way to defeat Arthur
his magic can let people fell asleep and controls this dreams. He is also able to get into others dreams and harm then or just watch them. One time he saw Escanor in one of his (own picked) adoptive father Meliodas dreams when he watched him sleep as a child. Since then he is fascinated from that man.
Through this he managed to awake a new side of his power. When he has the perfect image of a person he can let it exist in his realm.
So he mets with Escanor in his dreams, to tease him he always tells him that he is just an imagination made by him, but Escanor doesn't believe that foolish boy. In secret he realy adores him and he realy wishs he would have met him in person.
His design is not for no reason like that. I thought it funny to mix Arthur and Merlin, like Gawain looks a lot like a mix of Escanor and Merlin to me.
he is not related to Arthur(right now) he is an orphan used by slave trader till he dissapeared using his powers. He was in Lioness back then and after Meliodas found him and saw his powers he decided to keep him, but also Mordred wanted to stay with him too.
1902-1978, American Olympic swimmer (gold medal, 1920). In 1919 she was arrested for indecent exposure after taking off her stockings to swim, and public support for her was part of what killed the laws forbidding women to expose their "lower extremities" (knees and ankles).
Swimmers at the Île des cygnes in Paris (September 5th, 1920):
Ethelda Bleibtrey (USA) and Suzanne Wurtz (FRA) after the 300m. Bleibtrey won three gold medals at the Antwerp Olympics that year, while Wurtz competed in two events but failed to reach any finals.
The American team.
Ethelda Bleibtrey.
Aileen Riggin (USA). Riggin was the first female Olympic diving champion at the Antwerp Olympics, and the youngest female Olympic champion from 1920 until 1936.
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Ethelda Bleibtrey of Waterford was the first woman ever to win three gold medals. Learn more about this Olympian with local roots: http://www.wmht.org/sheinspires/
Ethelda Bleibtrey, the Trailblazer for Women’s Swimming Who Was Arrested Due to Her Swimsuit
Women first competed in swimming at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, taking part in two events: the 100m freestyle, which was won by Australia’s Fanny Durack, and the 4x100m relay, won by Great Britain’s Belle Moore, Jennie Fletcher, Annie Speirs and Irene Steers. At Antwerp 1920, a third event was introduced onto the programme: the 300m freestyle. Ethelda Bleibtrey, aged just 18 (she was…