Imagine
the shock a parent is likely to express when they find out their child
of nine months is able to swim the length of a swimming pool. That shock
is more prominent when at that age they cannot sit up, crawl or walk on
their own, but amazingly, put them in a pool and they will swim the
entire length of a 25m pool unaided.
That
is the strange but true story of Ellie and William Trykush, twins, born
to proud first-time parents, Vic and Charley Trykush. The Trykush did
not think their babies had a special talent, until they took them to
parent and baby swimming classes for the first time.
Charley said: “I thought all babies could do it.
“It
wasn’t until we came to swimming lessons and people got so excited
about it that we realised just how unusual it was and how clever they
were.”
Already, Dad Vic has his sights on seeing his water babies in the Olympics.
He
said: “Now they can swim and seeing that they were born in an Olympic
year, 2012, I would love to see them at the 2028 Olympics possibly, when
they’re 16, doing the open water swim.”
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