Millie Hudson was a British diver, open water swimmer, diving coach, and sports journalist.
13 Facts About Millie Hudson
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Millie Hudson competed in the women's 3 metre springboard event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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When she was 24, Millie Hudson was living in Hammersmith and working as a typist in Kensington, London.
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Millie Hudson competed in the 1924 Paris Olympics, after winning the Olympic trial in Blackpool.
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In January 1942, Millie Hudson wrote to Cook about meeting the Queen, who remembered her 1926 diving exhibition at the Royal Automobile Club.
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Later that year, Millie Hudson said that she and other women were learning to shoot, handle guns, and do jujitsu.
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Millie Hudson volunteered for the Red Cross in her spare time, and reported that she had managed to swim at Weymouth after American army bulldozers cleared the beaches in 1944.
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Four years later, Millie Hudson was the only female sports writer from Britain to cover the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
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In 1949, Millie Hudson became the first female member of the Sports Writers' Association, but she was denied entry into the association's annual dinner events.
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Millie Hudson remained the Sports Writers' Association's only female member until 1955.
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In 1956, Millie Hudson was in the boat when 22-year-old Elizabeth Wild from New Zealand failed to swim across the English channel.
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Millie Hudson told reporters that it was "terribly cold" and that Wild had to be taken out of the water against her will.
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Millie Hudson died on 17 September 1966 after a short illness, only ten days after traveling to Blackpool to report on the Amateur Swimming Championships.