a walk with katherine switzer. we're heading to the finish line of the boston marathon. i don't show it to you. in a few days' time she wants to run this race again fifty years after the original event . i'm watching it and then they watch the race right there at. nine hundred sixty six i heard from a friend of mine here and cross country about an event called the boston marathon and it lodged in my brain that someday i would really love to do that and i. said to him hey did a girl run the boston marathon too and he said yes in one thousand nine hundred sixty six bobby give jumped out of the bushes and ran the race bobby good had run the boston mountain one year before catherine but without an official number she got onto the track from a hiding place and i said well that's great see a woman can do it twenty six miles forty two kilometers sure. her father encouraged the young katherine to do long distance running despite the many prejudices. people still whispered about the medical implication you know that maybe you're going to turn into a man maybe you are a man or tha

have trained switzer placed second in boston in one hundred seventy five. she traveled around the world. los angeles in one thousand nine hundred for. the opening ceremony of the olympic games. there was a new entry among the competitions the women's marathon. i had invested so much of my life and emotion and work into trying to have this moment happened and here it was it was happening and it was happening so beautifully. fifty women run a stood at the stop line in the santa monica stadium ready to run forty two gentlemen says. i think one or two laps or forget how many at the beginning then they went out and went around town and wherever. someone high above must lead an american when john benoit samuelson is a great great writer and another person who pushed very hard for women's equality. and we watched joan benoit samuelson break away very early in the race and there's that moment you think is this a bad mistake because she's with very experienced people but she took a huge risk and it turned out to be one of the most amazing races in history but who co

catherine switzer is seventy years old. and yet she's still the star at this year's boston marathon. she talks about the event she experienced fifty years ago she sought after everywhere including here at birth to sixty one running group named after katherine switzer's famous number from the in one nine hundred sixty seven. then. when she talks about running it's always about life as well she's an inspiration to us all that's on. a walk with katherine switzer. we're heading to the finish line of the boston marathon and . i don't show it to you. in a few days' time she wants to run this route again fifty years after the original event. i'm watching it and it was right there at. nine hundred sixty six i heard from a friend of mine who ran cross country about an event called the boston marathon and it lodged in my brain that someday i would really love to do that and i said to him hey did a girl run the boston marathon too and he said yes in one thousand nine hundred sixty six bobby get jumped out of the bushes and ran the rac

a walk with katherine switzer. we're heading to the finish line of the boston marathon and. i don't show it to you . in a few days' time she wants to run this race again fifty years after the original event. and watching it. right at. nine hundred sixty six i heard from a friend of mine who ran cross-country about an event called the boston marathon and it lodged in my brain that someday i would really love to do that and i said to him hey did a girl run the marathon boston.

thanks boston katherine switzer can finally start running. director of global two six one club network. is following the race in the media center. says quote on the start she got to the start well which is quite a challenge in boston and then she got going in high spirits with our hundred runners and what was great is that we made a live recording in the at that place where the incident took place back then somerset five percent of the.

one thousand nine hundred sixty seven only men were officially allowed to run the mountain and yet switzer registered for boston so i filled out the entry form but i signed it of course how i signed my name k.v. switzer and when the entry form when they thought it was from a man i didn't know that it wasn't intentional i was only going to boston to run. the beginning the beginning of the race the day was like no other boston marathon zero marathons we go went to the starting line is so are some people some people we didn't know interviewed. came back. we we went up and then they we went on a bus the press bus after about two or three miles it warmed up and everyone was taking off the hoods and the buses the buses going by a pack and suddenly a boston writer said. jock there's a woman in your race. john christy. he's used various beat beat he didn't know what to say so he said stop the bus stop the bus off of this bus behind me came one of the co race directors his name was jock sample and the men on the bus the journalists had been teasing him saying hey look john there's a girl in your ra

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