In 1966, the Boston Marathon told women they couldn’t run. Not that they couldn’…
In 1966, the Boston Marathon told women they couldn’t run. Not that they couldn’t win—just that they couldn’t run at all. “Physiologically incapable,” they claimed. But Bobbi Gibb refused to believe it. On April 19, dressed in her brother’s Bermuda shorts, she hid in the bushes near the starting line. No bib, no welcome—just a […]








