WOMEN AT OLYMPIC GAMES
"If ever an argument existed against the participation of girls in athletics it was painfully presented by the six distressed figures that staggered past the post in the women's 800 metres race, and collapsed prostrate on the grass.” writes a Christchurch athletic enthusiast who saw the Games. In this race Fraulein L. Radke, of Germany, put up a world record of 2m 10 4-ss.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 477, 5 October 1928, Page 6
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68WOMEN AT OLYMPIC GAMES Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 477, 5 October 1928, Page 6
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