Wilma Rudolph

remember about living in Tennessee was that local girl Wilma Rudolph had won the hearts of America by earning a gold medal at the Olympics, despite suffering from polio as a child. None of that mattered to me: I just thought she had the greatest name ever, because it combined one of my favorite cartoon characters, Wilma Flintstone, and Santa’s most popular mutant reindeer. By the way, somewhere around that time, Wilma (Flintstone, not Rudolph) got pregnant on TV. They didn’t actually show her…

never hope to be successful. The most important aspect of achieving goals and overcoming obstacles is self-motivation. Wilma Rudolph had self-motivation and was also able to become a successful person. She had one obstacle in particular that she had to overcome. As a child, Wilma Rudolph was diagnosed with polio and doctors said that she would never be able to walk because of it. Rudolph, however, was not satisfied with this conclusion and worked hard to prove the doctors wrong. With the help of…

The 1956 Olympics Wilma Rudolph a 16 year old won a bronze medal in the 4x100 meter relay, this achievement was even more remarkable considering that she had polio as a child and wore braces on her legs until the age of nine. She began running and no one could stop her, in high school she never lost a meet. After triumphing in the 1956 Olympics she did even better in the 1960 Olympic games, winning gold medals in the 100 meter, 200 meter, and 4x100 meter relay. She became the first american…

Most female athletes are becoming fitness trainers of which is also predominatly are used as jobs by males. Secondly, most research has shown that most sprinters that have participated in the Olympics have came to be women like: Wilma Rudolph, Ashley Krueger and so on. Plus, most women have been becoming dominant athletes in the sports world. For instance Gabrielle Douglas Was the first women to have won an Olympics gold medal In gymnastics. Futhermore, Considering her age and…

She’s also the oldest woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the track and field category. Born April 15, 1957, Ashford started competing in high school. She was inspired by Wilma Rudolph to become a runner in her early teens. After high school, she attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she was THE track star of the school. In 1979, she won two World Cup titles, and then won another two world championship in 1981…

In John Carlos autobiography The John Carlos Story , John Carlos and Dave Zirin wanted to tell his story of what all he went through as a black athlete and how he decided to deal with racism in the United States. This was written by John Carlos and an author named Dave Zirin. Dave Zirin wrote in the afterword section of the book about things he was currently going through that made him want to write about John Carlos or to hear his story. This book was about John and him starting from the very…

Before I give you the mind-exploding facts about gender roles, let’s back up and ask how we even accumulated the expectation of society? Also how these expectations influence our gender sense? As stated in my introduction, gender can be defined as society’s understanding of how to organize sexual differences among the genders. How does society emphasize the gender’s differences? Despite the fact that there are obvious biological differences between the sexes, society categorizes the genders into…

1. Being twelve years old in high school my two major concerns was getting good grades and having fun wit friends. It was the beginning on my adolescence years. I never really thought about the future and any serious life goals. The first attempt at such interest was when at about the age of fourteen when we had to choose what area of subjects we wanted to pursue closer to the ending of high school. I took a mixture where it included the arts, business and minor science. I never really thought…

Are there equal opportunities provided for women and girls to play and compete in sports? How are women and girls being looked at and treated? Every day, we see scenarios of inequality between women and men in sports. Fortunately, there has been a vast improvement in the role in which women play in sport from up to 40 years ago till now. There has been change in media outlets, governing bodies and especially female athletes around the world, whether Caucasian or African. Although a lot of…

underestimated at birth just based off the color of your skin and you are look at as nothing but a hopeless statistics; however, the power to knock down those statistical barriers you must realize your greatness and no one could of realized it more than Wilma Rudolph who stated “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” If you look back at every monumental person in…