Less than a week later, the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials started in Eugene, ... funding and exposure to help push women's running to new levels of acceptance. Going the Distance with Joan Benoit Samuelson (1980s).
Women had been excluded from track and field competition altogether until 1928, ...
and set up a mechanism to monitor and ensure that this minimum number is being respected” and
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Going into the Moscow Olympics in 1980, the track and field-mad British press and
Ilona Slupianek 22.41 m (1980). The shot put is a track and field event involving " putting" (pushing rather than throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the shot—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's competition ...
''I should've pushed her,'' Mary Decker acknowledged, ''but if I had, the
She joined her school athletics club and a local track club, and completely
She made the Olympic team in 1980, but didn't compete because of a U.S. boycott.
In the women's singles and men's doubles event, the track ...