Born to Run
Run, Joan, run! In the late 1970s, it was believed that women couldn’t run long distances. Fortunately for us, no one told that to Joan Benoit Samuelson. The elite runner not only won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in the women’s marathon, but she also proved to the world that women could go the distance
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