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Julia Samp - Extended Write #6 (last one)

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Donna de Varona was the youngest member of the united states swimming team at the olympics games Rome 1960. She retired from competitive swimming at the age of 17 and went on the be the first woman sportscaster and the first woman to cover the olympics on tv in the U.S.

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Event(s): 100-meter Butterfly, 400 Individual Medley, 4x100 Freestyle

Birthplace: San Diego, Calif.

Hometown: Santa Clara, Calif.

High School: Santa Clara High School (Santa Clara, Calif.)

Olympic Experience

Two-time Olympian (1960, 1964); three-time Olympic medalist (3 golds)

Rome 1960, gold (4x100-meter freestyle)

Tokyo 1964, gold (4x100 freestyle, 400 individual medley)

Personal: Daughter of David and Martha de Varona...Has three siblings, Joanna, Kurt and David...Was the youngest member of the U.S. swimming team at the Olympic Games Rome 1960 at 13 years old...At age 17, became the first women to cover sports on network television for ABC's "Wide World of Sports"...Served as a television personality on NBC Sports, ABC's "Eyewitness News" in New York and the "TODAY Show"...Served as vice president of ABC Sports...Former chair of the USOC's public relations and information committee...Named the Theodore Roosevelt Award winner by the NCAA Honors Committee in 2003.

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Event(s): 100-meter Butterfly, 400 Individual Medley, 4x100 Freestyle Birthplace: San Diego, Calif. Hometown: Santa Clara, Calif. High School: Santa Clara High School (Santa Clara, Calif.) Olympic Experience Two-time Olympian (1960, 1964); three-time Olympic medalist (3 golds) Rome 1960, gold (4x100-meter freestyle) Tokyo 1964, gold (4x100 freestyle, 400 individual medley) Personal: Daughter of David and Martha de Varona...Has three siblings, Joanna, Kurt and David...Was the youngest member of the U.S.

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Woman protesting for equal rights

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Karen was an amazing person and author. She wrote 12 books for teens and adults she wrote books about sex discrimination and many other important things.

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Karen Blumenthal, author and former Dallas Morning News business editor, dies

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Karen Blumenthal, an award-winning author of narrative nonfiction for young people and a lifelong journalist who chose to elevate journalism in her...

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Nike commercial about how girls should be able to play sports and some of the benefits when they do

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Girls Play Sports Nike commercial, 1990s

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She is a champion of women's rights

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This is Doris Brown she is one of the greatest distance runners. She was a "tomboy" when she was younger and loved to run people thought she was weird. Until she became the first women's international cross country champion.

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One of America's greatest distance running talents had one major flaw: She was too fast for her time.

Up until 1967, the longest race for women that was contested in international competition was the Olympic 800 meters. That changed 50 years ago, on March 18, 1967, when the International Cross-Country Union added a 2.5-mile women's championship.

The winner was Doris Brown, now Doris Brown Heritage, who had to pay her own way to the race from Seattle to Barry, Wales.

Once she got there, she simply ran away from the field. She won by 37 seconds, an estimated 200 yards. With only one other American there, Patricia Cole, there was no team to score for.

The new championship-and its unknown American star-had a mixed reception.

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"At that first awards presentation, I had a standing ovation from all the men," said Heritage, now 74. "Some English journalists knew more about me than I knew myself."

Back home in the U.S., though, things were different. She cherished her tiny medal (even though the men's trophy was huge), but her country didn't see fit to fund her travel. "We thought after my win, the USA surely would send a team the next year, and indeed, we won in 1968-but again it was our friends and neighbors who helped financially, not our federation."

Heritage was certainly training as the best of the men were. She's the first woman known to have run 100 miles a week. "When I read that Jim Ryun was running twice a day, I tried it, and immediately my times improved, even at sprints," Heritage said.

But across the ocean people better recognized Heritage's accomplishments than they did at home.

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One of those was the eminent English writer and statistician Mel Watman. "Possibly no woman in history has trained so intensively as this 5-foot, 4-inch Washingtonian of Norwegian descent," Watman wrote in Athletics Weekly in 1967.

He is is still full of praise.

"Doris with her arduous training regime is one of the most significant figures in the evolution of women's running," Watman said this month from London.

Born in 1942, Heritage has always lived in Washington. She began as a track runner, because there was no other kind of running for women. At Seattle Pacific University she was coached by Ken Foreman and began the training that made her so significant.

"In the summer of 1966, she ran three times most days: five miles in the morning, speed work in the afternoon, and up to 10 miles in the evening," Watman said. "Her weekly total was between 70 and 100 miles."

That dedication brought its first reward when she set the world indoor record for the mile, 4:52, in 1966.

At last, the International Cross-Country race offered an opportunity for her to compete at a longer distance. Heritage went on to win the championship five times in total. She picked up another world track record, 9:26.9 for 3,000 meters, in 1971.

She was twice a U.S. Olympian in the 800 meters, in 1968 and 1972, and her PR was 2:01.9, but it was her high-paced endurance that made her unique. She would have been a phenomenon at 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters-had those events existed for women.

She had switched to coaching before she ran her first marathon, at age 33, in Vancouver in 1976. Astonishing herself and the world, she won in 2:37:45. The same year, she finished second to Miki Gorman at New York City in 2:53:03, despite taking a red-eye flight to get to the race.

But her peak years fell just too early for the marathon boom.

That's done nothing to dampen her lasting love of her sport. Heritage coached the U.S. Olympic team in 1984 and served on the IAAF cross-country committee.

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"Being so well accepted as the first female world champion, coaching the U.S. Olympic team, and being the first woman on the cross-country committee, those were real privileges," she said. "I still want to share the joys of cross-country. I will always feel some ownership, like it's part of my soul."

She still loves the wooded trails, although arthritis slows her. Her dog, which she named Deena Kastor, logs the big miles.

"Deena has a bit of a fartlek mentality, but I'm faithful with my exercise regimen, and like all runners, always planning to get faster and do more," she said.

As the dog's name suggests, Heritage is a fan as well as a legend.

"I admire Deena Kastor, and before her, Lynn Jennings. Shalane [Flanagan], and her mother Cheryl Bridges [now Treworgy] was on the USA team with me in 1968," Heritage said. "And of course Meb [Keflezighi], and I can't wait to see what Molly Huddle, Jenny Simpson, and Emma Coburn might do at longer distances."

No one today could emulate Heritage's five world titles, or outdo her in the commitment that impelled her to win them.

And in 2017, at the IAAF World Cross-Country Championships on March 26 in Kampala, Uganda, men and women will race the same distance for the first time in history: 10K.

That journey to equality has taken 50 years, and it started with Doris Brown Heritage.

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One of America's greatest distance running talents had one major flaw: She was too fast for her time. Up until 1967, the longest race for women that was contested in international competition was the Olympic 800 meters. That changed 50 years ago, on March 18, 1967, when the International Cross-Country Union added a 2.5-mile women's championship.

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Women's Rights Movement - 1970 NBC News Report - Reel America Preview

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This book isn't just about women playing sports it is about everything men say we can't do. We are strong and should be equal to men.

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