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The First Lady of Olympic Track
The Life and Times of Betty Robinson
Udgivet af Northwestern University Press
ISBN
9780810129580
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The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam were the first in which women over the objections of many, including Pope Pius XI and the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin were allowed to run in the marquee track events. Equally remarkable is the story behind the first female gold medal winner in the 100-me…
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Joe Gergen
Forlag
Northwestern University Press
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Biografier: sport
ISBN-13
9780810129580
EAN
9780810129580
Format
Hæftet
Sprog
Engelsk
sider
208
Undertitel
- The Life and Times of Betty Robinson
Produktbeskrivelse
The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam were the first in which women over the objections of many, including Pope Pius XI and the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin were allowed to run in the marquee track events. Equally remarkable is the story behind the first female gold medal winner in the 100-meter dash, sixteen-year-old American Betty Robinson. A prodigy running in just her fourth organised meet, Robinson stunned the world, earning special praise from the president of the 1928 American Olympic Committee, General Douglas MacArthur. But Robinson’s triumph soon became tragedy when in 1931 she was involved in a life-threatening plane crash. Unable to assume a sprinter’s crouch, she nevertheless joined fellow pioneer Jesse Owens at the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics, and achieved further glory on the relay team. Journalist Joe Gergen’s The First Lady of Olympic Track rescues an exceptional figure from obscurity.
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