They were too weak, too fragile, for sports.
My favorite tidbit in the supplemental info: after her race, the Amateur Athletic Union expelled Kathrine for "running the Boston Marathon with men" and "running the Boston Marathon without a chaperone." My my my my my.
I do wish the author had included those photos in the additional material in the back, because they make the situation feel more real to the reader. Kathrine just doesn't take no for an answer, and she was instrumental in opening the sport of running up to women. This is a really, really excellent story of determination and persistence. Kudos to the men running near her who helped plow the race official off of the course and allowed her to keep going. Turns out, nope! Kathrine was well within her rights to run that day. Obviously I thought that was ridiculous, but not having read the full story, I also assumed that it had been against the rules for a woman to run.
This initiative is also the result of a collaboration with El País and Santillana Group.Īll BBVA podcast episodes are available in the following platforms: iVoox, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcast and remember seeing the iconic photos of race officials in the 1967 Boston marathon trying to stop Kathrine Switzer and pull her numbers off. ' Aprendemos juntos' is an educational project developed by BBVA to make our brand promise a reality: Creating opportunities. It made me feel so good that I wanted to share it with all the women I knew. Seven years after making history, Switzer won the 1974 New York marathon and placed second in the Boston marathon in 1975.
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