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I remember the first time I beat my father in a swimming race. The Lido, Palmerston North, circa 1973.
Three of us Corbett boys had started taking swimming lessons and were going regularly to the pool. I think it’s where we got our name “The Fighting Corbetts”. Not because we fought others, but because we