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Heavy Medals is a 7-part series that makes up the seventh season of ESPN’s 30for30 podcast, the audio documentary sister program to the sports media giant’s film documentary series of the same name. This series tells the story of Béla and Márta Károlyi, Soviet-era [...]

On March 18, 2019, I read something that woke me up, that burst me out of a self-made bubble that was abundant with stories about women in sports, especially women in running. Here’s what I read: “Forty percent of sports participants are women, but they [...]

Chris Clark wasn’t a name many people in the elite marathon ranks were familiar with back in 2000 when she was headed to the Olympic Marathon Trials. She certainly wasn’t among the favorites to earn the guarantee spot on the U.S. Olympic marathon team [...]

Last year I wrote about my podcast-in-the-making, and then I was calling it Becoming Comrades. That evolved into what is now Strides Forward, stories of women and running, told one woman at a time. I have just launched the trailer (it’s available on all the [...]