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Kathrine Switzer has never met Tatyana McFadden, but in many ways the two athletes have much in common.
Switzer, who was honored here yesterday some 40 years after she became the first official woman to finish the Boston Marathon, is truly one of the small handful of women largely responsible for the fact that nearly half of the 23,500 official starters in tomorrow's marathon are women.See the full content of this document
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Mcfadden's Mission a Selfish One, Unlike Switzer's
As a 20-year-old Syracuse student who played field hockey and basketball at Marshall High School in Falls Church, Switzer did not buy into the prevailing thought in 1967 that women were too weak to run a mile, l...
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