Thursday, June 21st, 2012
By Olivia Lynch
Title IX was designed to give women the resources and opportunities to prove their abilities on and off the field. However, strangely enough, what I most appreciate about Title IX (as it relates to sports) is the way in which it has catalyzed the creation of an athletic environment in which ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
The international track federation’s (IAAF) decision to nullify women’s marathon records from mixed-sex events reflects a crude double standard: Men can have rabbits; women can’t.
The use of pacesetters is common in running, from short track distances to marathons. Boston and New York no longer allow pacesetters, but many ...
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Whether or not the IAAF decides to recognize as a new world record Geoffrey Mutai’s win in the Boston Marathon, crossing in 2:03:02 – 57 seconds faster than Haile Gebreselassie’s 2008 record of 2:03:59 – is, in some ways, immaterial.
He was fast. He was so thrillingly fast (and ...
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
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By Davi-Ellen Chabner
On this morning of the 2010 Boston Marathon, I‘m thinking about where I have been for the past nine years: At the starting line in Hopkinton, wondering if I have it in me to run through ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
The lead women's pack at mile 18 of The Boston Marathon 2009
One of the most frustrating things about watching the Boston Marathon is that it’s hard to tell how fast the runners are. I’m not talking TV coverage or the delay in the Boston Athletic Association website in ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
By Sarah Odell
As a freshmen at Wellesley College, I gawked at a larger than life poster hanging in Boston’s Prudential Center that featured a blurred runner and hundreds of smart, attractive, and energetic women cheering wildly, along with the tag line: “Sometimes losing your hearing is the best inspiration.”
“What is ...
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