
Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now
Quillette Podcast
The Disappointment of International Rowing
The 1980 U.S. Olympic rowing team was boycotting the Olympics in Moscow because of a political boycott. "I think that bringing politics into the Olympics to the extent that occurred with the boycott, then set a standard that has compromised the Olympics ever since," she says. She is no right-wing zealot; some people who stand up for women's rights are attacked as being conservative fundamentalists.
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