EPISODE · Dec 10, 2019 · 3 MIN
Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Running Revolutionary by Rachel Swaby, Kit Fox
from Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Sports · host Randi Haley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/409008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Running Revolutionary Author: Rachel Swaby, Kit Fox Narrator: Rachel Swaby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: In 1967, a thirteen-year-old girl named Maureen Wilton set the women's world marathon record, running 26.2 miles in 3:15:23. Nicknamed “Little Mo” by her track teammates, Wilton was already a headline-making athlete. But her accomplishment was greeted with controversy and misogynistic accusations of cheating. Wilton receded into the background, left the sport, and kept her achievement secret. This is the story of what happened and how Maureen found her way back to the sport decades later as the mother of a young runner herself.
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