Britain Loses Olympic Centenarian

The British Olympic Committee announced today, Friday, the death of Edna Child, the oldest living British Olympic athlete, at the age of 100. Child participated in the London 1948 Olympics in diving and later succeeded in the British Empire Games. She won a bronze medal at the European Games in 1938 when she was fifteen, but her promising professional career was halted during World War II when she joined the military. Upon resuming her athletic career, she finished sixth in diving at the London Olympics and won in both the springboard and platform diving events at the 1950 British Empire Games, now known as the Commonwealth Games.