Shooting stars, exploding cinders, her feet barely The lines of her muscles Stretched tighter than any tree. She cried When she won it a second time and we cried When she stood on that platform `Fastest woman in the world,’ for we felt Something in our chests leap and stretch. Florence, you were so far [...]
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After the Northern Lights: Florence Griffith Joyner and the Making of Contemporary Women’s
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Athletic vs. Pornographic Eroticism: How Muscle Magazines Compromise Female Athletes and Delegitimize the Sport of Bodybuilding in the Public Eye
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“I was fast asleep,” Ben Weider writes, “on the morning of the 30th of January, when sometime around 3 AM, I received a telephone call from Nagano, Japan, informing me that the IFBB had been granted official IOC recognition and that bodybuilding was now a sport to be respected the same as other sports.”i Weider [...]