One Woman's Olympic Journey: Joan Rosazza - Melbourne 1956

"How did a girl raised in a town with no sports for girls get to stand on the medal box at the Olympic Games and receive a Silver Medal from the Prince of Denmark? Not on her own." - Joan Rosazza. We hark back to December 6, 1956, in Melbourne, Australia. The swimming final of the women's 4 x 100 freestyle relay is about to start. Eight aquanauts are on the blocks. The starter fires his gun, off they dive, then he fires it again while "cleaning" it, but that didn't stop the race. The eight women, one for each team of four, are already flying down the pool. The USA team is taking on the heavily favored Australian quartet, including the legendary Dawn Fraser. This is the story of that race, and of the beginnings, years before, at a small town YMCA in Torrington, Connecticut where Joan Rosazza joins a girls swim team formed by a woman and Olympian from another era, Doris O'Mara Murphy.