Thursday, March 21, 2013

ATHLETES

“The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.”  TARA LIPINSKI Olympic Ice Skater

EDNA CAMPBELL is a professional basketball player with the WNBA Sacramento Monarchs and a breast cancer survivor.  Campbell travels across the country as a spokesperson for breast cancer awareness, encouraging women to do regular breast exams and inspiring those with cancer to have hope and courage in challenging the disease.

In 1960, WILMA RUDOLPH (1940–1994) became the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals for track and field. This feat is even more astounding because she had been crippled by illness and was not able to walk until she was eight years old. She continued breaking records until she retired in 1962. In 1974, she was inducted into the Black Athletes Hall of Fame. To encourage young athletes, she founded the Wilma Rudolph Foundation in 1981.

QUIZ: Who defeated Bobby Riggs in the 1973 "battle of the sexes” tennis match?


ANSWER: BILLY JEAN KING

Source www.NWHP.org



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