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The biggest winner in the Paris Olympics? The Sisterhood | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At the first modern Olympiad in Greece in 1896, an athletic woman from Syros seeking to improve her fortunes walked 6 miles to Athens in hopes of competing in the marathon. But women were barred from those first Olympics because Pierre de Coubertin, their founder,…