Eleanor G. Holm (December 6, 1913 - January 31, 2004) was an American swimmer. A former Olympic champion, she is best known for having been suspended from the 1936 Olympic team for excessive behavior. December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Swimming is the method by which humans (or other animals) move themselves through water. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Born the daughter of a fireman in Brooklyn, N.Y., Holm learned swimming while very young. Winning her first national swimming title at age 13, she was selected to compete in the 1928 Summer Olympics, where she finished fifth in her specialty, the 100-meter backstroke. She was talented in several other strokes as well, winning several American titles in the 300-yard medley event. The Brooklyn Bridge in 1890, seven years after its opening Kings County in New York State Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. ... The Games of the IX Olympiad were held in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ... Backstroke swimming (amateur competition, non-optimal style) Backstroke is one of the three swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. ...

At the 1932 Games in Los Angeles, Holm won her favorite event, with defending champion Braun having to forfeit the final due to an insect bite. The following year, she married musician Art Jarrett, a fellow graduate of Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, and sang in his band. She appeared with his band, wearing a white bathing suit and white cowboy hat with high heels, singing "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande." The Games of the X Olympiad were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, United States. ... The Downtown Los Angeles skyline as seen from Hollywood. ... Erasmus Hall High School is a high school in the New York City school system. ...

Competing as Eleanor Holm Jarrett, she was selected for the 1936 Olympics. The Games of the XI Olympiad were held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. ...

Unfortunately, after a drinking party aboard the ship transporting the team, Holm was found, according to the team doctor, in a state approaching a coma. According to David Wallechinsky, The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics, the Olympic team doctor reported that she was suffering from acute alcoholism, but Holm denied it. Team leader Avery Brundage promptly suspended her from the Olympic team. Holm, admitting to having had a few drinks, subsequently maintained that her suspension arose from a personal grudge held by Brundage. Avery Brundage (September 28, 1887 _ May 8, 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist. ...

"This chaperone came up to me and told me it was time to go to bed. God, it was about 9 o'clock, and who wanted to go down in that basement to sleep anyway? So I said to her: `Oh, is it really bedtime? Did you make the Olympic team or did I?' I had had a few glasses of Champagne. So she went to Brundage and complained that I was setting a bad example for the team, and they got together and told me the next morning that I was fired. I was heartbroken."

Holm's Olympic teammates petitioned unsuccessfully to overturn the suspension. The top favorite for the 100-meter backstroke event, Holm watched from the stands as the title went to Dutch swimmer Nida Senff.

After she quit swimming, Holm played Jane opposite fellow Olympian Glenn Morris in the 1938 film Tarzan's Revenge. She enjoyed a short film career after that appearance. After her divorce from Art Jarrett, she married impresario Billy Rose. At the 1939 New York World's Fair she did 39 shows a week at Rose's "Aquacade", co-featured with Tarzan-swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and then Buster Crabbe. Glenn Morris (1912 - 1973) was a U.S. track athlete. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Billy Rose (September 6, 1899–February 10, 1966) was an American theatrical showman. ... The 1939 New York Worlds Fair, located where Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is now (and where the 1964 New York Worlds Fair was held), was one of the largest worlds fairs of all time. ... Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ... Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Austrian-born American swimmer and actor. ... Larry Buster Crabbe (February 7, probably in 1908, Oakland, California - April 23, 1983, Scottsdale, Arizona) was an American athlete turned actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s. ...

Later known as Eleanor Holm Whalen (after her third husband), she died of kidney failure in Miami, at age 90. Kidneys viewed from behind with spine removed The kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs in vertebrates. ... This article is about the city in Florida. ...

References

New York Times obituary, February 2, 2004
William O. Johnson, All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Lewis H. Carlson and John J. Fogarty, Tales of Gold .