<p>How can you overcome stereotypes, and get everyone swimming?</p><br><p>Alice Dearing has enjoyed a highly decorated career, culminating at the Tokyo Olympics. She made history, becoming the first black woman to swim for Team GB at an Olympic Games in 2021.</p><br><p>Alice started swimming at a young age, encouraged by her mum. She fell in love with the sport and rapid progress followed: success at county level, then regional, then national. She was junior World Champion in 2016 and took on the gruelling open water 10km at the Olympics four years later.</p><br><p>Now, having retired from swimming, Alice is taking on an even bigger challenge. She was shocked when she discovered that, in 2020 in England, 95% of black adults and 80% of black children did not swim. Similarly, 93% of Asian adults and 78% of Asian children did not swim either.</p><br><p>And so, Alice co-founded the Black Swimming Association (BSA). The aim was to get more people into pools, dispelling stereotypes which have been holding back black and Asian people from learning to swim. </p><br><p>With help from The National Lottery, the BSA is now helping communities across the country – getting many people into the water for the first time. It’s been a huge success; Alice has seen firsthand how people are overcoming their fear of water and are discovering the pleasures of swimming. </p><br><p>Game Changers host, Aimee Fuller - two-time Olympian, author and broadcaster – meets Alice. They compare Olympic experiences as National Lottery funded elite athletes and discuss Alice’s Game Changing work. Aimee discovers Alice’s incredible drive – to change the narrative around how black and Asian people are viewed in aquatics.</p><br><p>We are also joined by broadcaster, Clare Balding, who reads a new poem celebrating the National Lottery’s Sports Game Changers. </p><br><p>And poet Robert Montgomery describes how meeting Alice inspired his work, which was displayed with great drama in sporting locations across the UK.</p><br><p>Be inspired. Follow to catch every episode. </p><br><p>Game Changers is brought to you by National Lottery players, who raise £30 million each week for good causes across the UK. For more information about projects that help ordinary people, visit: https://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
