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  1. #athletics #trackandfield #sexism
    “Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern #Olympics, believed that including #women in the #OlympicGames would be ‘impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and improper’”

    How One Fake Story Kept #Women Out of #Olympic Distance #Running for Decades
    False reports about #athletes collapsing helped fuel the narrative that #running long distances was dangerous for #women 🏃‍♀️
    runnersworld.com/news/a7348593

  2. #athletics #trackandfield #sexism
    “Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern #Olympics, believed that including #women in the #OlympicGames would be ‘impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and improper’”

    How One Fake Story Kept #Women Out of #Olympic Distance #Running for Decades
    False reports about #athletes collapsing helped fuel the narrative that #running long distances was dangerous for #women 🏃‍♀️
    runnersworld.com/news/a7348593

  3. #athletics #trackandfield #sexism
    “Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern #Olympics, believed that including #women in the #OlympicGames would be ‘impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and improper’”

    How One Fake Story Kept #Women Out of #Olympic Distance #Running for Decades
    False reports about #athletes collapsing helped fuel the narrative that #running long distances was dangerous for #women 🏃‍♀️
    runnersworld.com/news/a7348593

  4. #athletics #trackandfield #sexism
    “Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern #Olympics, believed that including #women in the #OlympicGames would be ‘impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and improper’”

    How One Fake Story Kept #Women Out of #Olympic Distance #Running for Decades
    False reports about #athletes collapsing helped fuel the narrative that #running long distances was dangerous for #women 🏃‍♀️
    runnersworld.com/news/a7348593

  5. #athletics #trackandfield #sexism
    “Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern #Olympics, believed that including #women in the #OlympicGames would be ‘impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and improper’”

    How One Fake Story Kept #Women Out of #Olympic Distance #Running for Decades
    False reports about #athletes collapsing helped fuel the narrative that #running long distances was dangerous for #women 🏃‍♀️
    runnersworld.com/news/a7348593

  6. #athletics #trackandfield
    #SabastianSawe broke the two-hour #marathon barrier. #JoshKerr shattered a 27-year-old #mile record. Scientists explain what actually separates a #worldrecord that's ripe to fall from one that may never be broken

    “sticky” #worldrecords sometimes come from #running “geniuses” who, for whatever reasons, have the ideal set of mental and training skills to take giant whacks at what was previously believed impossible run.outsideonline.com/history/