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When the Olympics canceled softball, it erased years of progress for women
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Even now, eight years later, I'm not completely over it: The US softball team lost in the gold medal game of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It was the first time in Olympic softball history that the US didn't win gold. It was horrible. I felt that we'd let ...and more »
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When the Olympics canceled softball, it erased years of progress for women - Vox
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Raising my fist at the Olympics cost me friends and my marriage — but I'd do it again - Vox
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Raising my fist at the Olympics cost me friends and my marriage — but I'd do it again
Vox
After I retired from running, I was a counselor for 20 years at several schools in Southern California. At first, no one knew I was an Olympian who'd made international news for raising my fist on the medals podium in 1968 — not the district, and ...
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