![]() ![]() These athletes became more visible and more accepted, as stars like Babe Didrikson and Stella Walsh showed the world what women could do. While Betty was recovering, the other women of Track and Field were given the chance to shine in the Los Angeles Games, building on Betty's pioneering role as the first female Olympic champion in the sport. ![]() Betty, once a natural runner who always coasted to victory, soon found herself fighting to walk. So dire was Betty's condition that she was taken to the local morgue only upon the undertaker's inspection was it determined she was still breathing. Amsterdam made her a star.īut at the top of her game, her career (and life) almost came to a tragic end when a plane she and her cousin were piloting crashed. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered running for a train in rural Illinois mere months before her Olympic debut. She crossed the finish line as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet. ![]() The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold ![]()
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