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Chris Eggett talks to Katherine Switzer
27th October 2019 5 years ago

Katherine Switzer and Chris Eggett
Chris Eggett and his daughter Emily talk to Kathrine Switzer who hit the headlines in 1967 when running as number 261 in the Boston Marathon.
At that time women were not expected to enter marathons and the organiser tried to remove her from the course mid race.
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