(Reuters) - On a warm July 1983 day in the Colorado mountains, a slender American woman literally reached the peak of female sprinting when she smashed the women's 100 metres world record that German ...
"Changed the Game" is a Yahoo Sports series dedicated to the women who are often overlooked, under-appreciated or simply deserve more flowers for their contributions to women's sports history. If ...
Track stars Bob Hayes, the only man to win an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring, Evelyn Ashford, 1980 hockey coach Herb Brooks, the 1984 U.S. men's gymnastics team, gymnast Shannon Miller, ...