I definitely appreciate it. I knew about Katherine Switzer because I read an article about her already. I figured there were more instances of this, I just wasn’t aware of who.
At one point, yes, women were not legally allowed to run in these large marathons per event regulations and when they tried, they were harassed and assaulted. You should read up about Katherine Switzer and how she was assaulted by a man who was a manager of the Boston marathon in the 60s.
The sign is encouraging women who are current runners to run for the women who were unable to in the past.
what is this a reference to? Women aren’t legally allowed to run a marathon? What?!
“Legally” is a strange way to put it but they were not allowed to participate by the organizers
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y67eg5q3lo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbi_Gibb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathrine_Switzer
(And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Semple )
Oh I didn’t know about Gibbs! Thanks for sharing
I added a few more too, I didn’t realize at first that it was London not Boston.
I definitely appreciate it. I knew about Katherine Switzer because I read an article about her already. I figured there were more instances of this, I just wasn’t aware of who.
At one point, yes, women were not
legallyallowed to run in these large marathons per event regulations and when they tried, they were harassed and assaulted. You should read up about Katherine Switzer and how she was assaulted by a man who was a manager of the Boston marathon in the 60s.The sign is encouraging women who are current runners to run for the women who were unable to in the past.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/kathrine-switzer-the-first-woman-to-run-the-boston-marathon-recalls-being-attacked-during-famous-1967-race-exclusive/ar-AA21f1rY
Women weren’t
legallyallowed to run a marathon.Ftfy