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Significant strides: Women`s advancement in endurance sports
In a break with tradition, the culminating event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be the women`s marathon, not the men`s. Women have come a long way over the last century in being able to participate - and smash records - in endurance sports such as marathons, ultra-marathons, long-distance cycling and swimming, and triathlons. Claire McKay Bowen explores what has helped, and hindered, them along the way
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| Notations: | endurance sports sport history and sport politics |
| Published in: | Significance |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae041 |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 18-21 |
| Document types: | article |
| Level: | advanced |