THE AQUATIC ADVENTURES OF MAGGIE MAC NEIL

Katie Underwood

She overcame asthma, broken bones and COVID-induced delays, and picked up a Tokyo gold along the way. Now she’s off to Paris to defend her supremacy. What’s left for the woman who’s won it all? Do it again. Faster. IN 2000, Susan McNair and Ed Mac Neil adopted a nine-month-old baby from Jiujiang, China. They named her Hannah Margaret, or Maggie. Susan was a family physician in London, Ontario, and Ed was a high school drama teacher. Neither ever expected to become parents of an Olympian. “I can assure you: I would not have given birth to an elite athlete,” Susan says. Maggie took her first dip in a pool roughly a week after her arrival in Canada; Susan was extra-keen on water safety and signed them up for a…

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