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oh, hey there oh, hey, there, wow, oh, my word this is the origin of weird.
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Hello, I am Kate and I am Bradley.
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And all my cats are out.
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Hi, kitty cats.
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Yep, there's Oliver.
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Was that Oliver?
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Was he the one just meowing, or was it Frankie who's trying to get into the podcast bag?
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So normally we record this in addition to History of a Foon.
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So we don't normally have a beverage on this, but today we do.
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Yeah, we do yeah.
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We got this from a friend of ours.
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We did yeah, it's a strawberry rhubarb hard cider from Obscurity Cider.
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Yeah, it's from Elburn.
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Illinois.
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It is from Tara.
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Thank you for the suggestion, tara.
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Yes, thank you, illinois, it is from Tara.
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Thank you for the suggestion Tara.
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Yes, thank you, tara.
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She brought it over for a Christmas celebration and we never had it.
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No, but I look forward to having it now.
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Okay, cheers Tart.
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Ooh, that is tart, Not bad though.
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Yeah, do you like strawberry rhubarb?
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I do my mom, I think my grandma used to always make a rhubarb pie when I was little.
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Yeah, it wasn't a strawberry rhubarb, it was rhubarb yeah, it's like here's this weed.
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Make something out of it, because that's what rhubarb looks like but it's a pretty weed.
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It's got red in it.
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You've got red on you.
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If you saw Shaun of the Dead, you'd understand, and I know you have.
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I have, but I don't remember that line.
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It's all right.
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Throughout the whole movie you have red on you.
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It's in reference to the blood of the movie.
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Anywho Origin weird, let's go, yes.
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So anywho origin weird let's go.
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Yes, so I have um an olympian, oh yeah, a weird olympian.
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It's more of an, that's amazing olympian sure and like again olympians are amazing.
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Well you're not wrong.
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I can't do any of that.
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You kidding me?
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No, I can barely think about it, let alone do it.
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I've seen you run I feel like we're at a standstill, like we just lost our will to live.
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No, um, no, yeah.
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So here on origin of weird.
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I mean, obviously we're in search for everything weird, but to me olympians are weird because they're like just ridiculous specimens of human that can do these certain things, and I can't even come close.
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And this person runs and no one is chasing her.
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Why would she do that?
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Exactly, penny keeps rubbing up against my microphone stand.
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I know it's kind of annoying Penny, penny wise.
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Penny, Penny, Penny, Penny, Benny, Benny, Benny.
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Okay, so this is on Elizabeth Betty Robinson.
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Elizabeth Betty Robinson.
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Did you know that Betty is a nickname for Elizabeth?
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I didn't actually know that, no.
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Yes, so Benny.
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Yeah, she was born Penny.
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You gotta stop me come on, penny, jesus, bye, miss okay, so she was born august 23rd 1911 in riverdale, illinois.
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Oh, well, fancy that we're drinking a beverage from illinois I and we're talking about a particular person from Illinois.
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So she was leaving school.
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She went to school at Thornton Township High School, okay, and she was trying to catch the school train.
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Where is she from again?
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Riverdale.
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Where in Illinois is that?
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Do you know Somewhere?
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in the state.
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So she was trying to catch a train, jesus.
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So all right, painting a picture trying to catch a train.
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Go, she's trying to catch a train.
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Yeah, and somewhere in illinois.
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Oh, that got penny away there you go okay.
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So um riverdale is like a, a southern suburb of chicago.
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Oh, penny jesus, now she's going after yours.
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Yeah, and she pushed down and it almost fell over oh, penny, penny, there's gonna be a lot of edits because you're in this.
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Good thing this is an origin, not a buffoons.
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A little less editing in those at least.
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Okay, she was trying to catch a school train.
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Yeah, okay, she was actually spotted by her science teacher.
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Wait, school train, a train.
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You said a school train.
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A train she was running to catch the train.
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You said a school.
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Train a train.
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You said a school train a train.
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She was running to catch the train.
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You said a school train a school train they had trains for school apparently in riverdale illinois okay she's running and running and running, trying to catch this train yeah and her science teacher sees her she's like that chicken run exactly wow, except so he was a former athlete himself.
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His name is Charles Price.
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Okay.
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And he was the coach of the school's track team, coincidentally.
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Weird how that worked.
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So he recognized her impressive speed and, even though she nearly missed the train, they ended up seated next to each other and he's all like, hey, come join my team.
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No women allowed.
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Oh, oh, I suppose it was during that time, that's unfortunate, join the boys team she dress up like a boy.
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No, okay she did have her hair cut really short, but I think that was just who she was well either way, so after only After only four months of training.
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On March 30th 1928, at the age of 16, she finished second to Helen Filkey in the 60-yard dash, and Filkey was the US record holder at 100 meters.
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Wow, so she finished second to her.
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That's pretty impressive.
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After only four months of training.
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Yeah, I mean that's not much time at all.
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Yeah, wow, wow.
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I need like 40 years to get close to that, I know at her next race, shaking his head at me.
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At her next race, on june 2nd, at 100 meters, she beat filkey what and equaled the world record, though her time was not recognized because it was deemed wind-aided.
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Oh, come on, I know.
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She had the jet stream in her favor.
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I mean what the fuck yeah?
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That's lame.
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But she qualified for the Amsterdam 1928 Olympic Games.
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Oh, is that where they were held that year, amsterdam?
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Yes, okay, yes, nice.
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So fun fact.
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Yeah, the Olympics these Olympics 1928, were the first time that track and field and gymnastics for women were added.
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Oh really, women were a part of other things like archery and cricket and stuff.
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Right.
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But this was the first year that track and field and gymnastics were added.
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So 28 is the first year.
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Wow that track and field and gymnastics were added.
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So 28th the first year.
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Wow, I didn't realize that.
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Yeah, so of course there was huge backlash, sure, of course.
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Uh, people like pierre de coubertin and the vatican were against it.
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The vatican was against, oh good lord.
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So women athletes, they weren't going to have it right.
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They'd already been already been started in their own organizations and they already had competitions in place in 1922 and 1926.
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Sure, and they eventually showed what they were capable of.
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Well, there you go.
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And the IAAF, the International Association of Athletics Federation, said that women deserved a spot in the Olympics.
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Well, why not?
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Damn straight.
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So that Pierre guy Pierre de Coubertin, he was the founding member of the International Olympic Committee and he served as president up until 1925.
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Okay, so he was kind of up there as far as the Olympics, no doubt yeah.
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And Oliver's in a bag bag that's not a metaphor.
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He's literally in a bag you're gonna be taking home a bunch of cat hair I do every time I bring the podcast bag into your house.
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That's right so women were only allowed to compete in the 100 meter meter, 800 meter, discus, high jump and four mil 100 millimeter, millimeter, it's a really quick race the 100 meter relay race.
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No shot put, no damn, so another fun fact.
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Okay to tell the 1928 olympics also featured the debut of the Olympic flame.
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Really, that's the first year it had the flame.
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Yeah, I didn't realize that either.
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That's crazy yeah.
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So Betty was the only US athlete to qualify for the 100-meter final.
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Okay.
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And before the race she realized she brought two left shoes.
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Oh, I think my stomach would just drop.
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Well, yeah, because you're like what do I do here?
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It's not like you can all of a sudden change one into a right shoe.
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Well, she waited for a team member to go get her a right shoe.
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Oh, really yeah Wow.
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They came back and she put it on right before her next race.
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Vesper likes to put her shoes on herself sometimes, and she almost always puts them on the wrong feet and she argues that they're on the right feet.
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Oh poor, dear yeah.
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So that day in 1928, she was racing against other women who knew they were making history.
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Well, yeah, first time.
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Yeah, the pressure was big.
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Well, it's insurmountable.
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So guess what?
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What?
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100-meter dash right, yeah, was big.
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Well, it's insurmountable.
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So guess what?
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100 meter dash right yeah.
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Two women false started.
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Oh shit, from the couch position okay, sound like you said from the couch position and they didn't even have like starting blocks back then oh, they didn't.
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They just what, just line up, I guess, yeah, okay so canada, canada's myrtle cook myrtle my Myrtle Cook and Germany's Lenny Schmidt were out.
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Those are the two that false started Mm-hmm Cook was heartbroken, Like she was crying.
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Well, sure.
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And Schmidt was furious and even swore revenge on the starter.
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She's like bomb I'm gonna get you?
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was that the one from germany?
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yeah, oh, oh, dear so the remaining, remaining runners lined back up on the track, okay, and betty was right next to her biggest rival oh dear helen rosenfeld, which is exactly where she wanted to be, that's the one she raced a couple times right no, oh no, that was a different helen oh so many helens, only two helen rosenfeld was um.
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I think she was canadian or german how many germans and canadians are in this?
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Because wasn't that the two that fall started?
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yes, but there can be several I get that Betty was just the only.
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American.
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I understand, okay, okay.
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She wanted to keep an eye on her competition and Helen Rosenfeld was competition.
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Yeah, and she was right next to her.
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So at the gun Germany's Erna Steinberg exploded.
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She blew up.
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That's unfortunate.
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I didn't know.
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They used like incendiary bombs.
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Stop on the person.
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Betty was right behind her.
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Rosenfeld had a slow start okay okay, but she caught up to betty halfway through shit.
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They sprinted to the finish line neck and neck.
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Both betty and um helen rosenfeld both like briefly raised their hands in are in victory, thinking like they won.
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They both did at the same time did the other one win no betty won.
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Oh, she did actually, yes rosenfeld could be seen in the in the footage glancing anxiously at betty, but she just smiles confidently and she was having the time of her life.
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Miss betty was sure.
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So betty won the first ever women's 100 meter gold medal in 12.2 seconds.
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God damn that's a world record.
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That's insane yeah, she had only been seriously running for five months.
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That's crazy, yeah that is.
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That is weird, because to be that good I mean clearly she had natural talent, but to be that good and win world record.
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She was only 16.
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Holy shit, that's right.
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She's still the youngest person ever to do it is she really yeah, wow, that's impressive okay, so rosenfeld.
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Helen rosenfeld was canad, canadians.
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Canadians she was plural.
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And the Canadians thought that she actually won Of course they did.
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And lodged a complaint, but the judges were like nah.
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Were the Canadians like?
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What's it all about?
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Exactly, and the.
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US judges are like nah.
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Now we're good.
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Six decades later, Robinson Betty was interviewed for a book called Tales of Glory, an oral history of the Summer Olympic Games Told by America's gold medal winners, by Lewis H Carlson and John J Fogarty.
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Longest title ever, no kidding.
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And this is how she remembered the race that's not like the same john fogarty from the ccr, is it?
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that is um one in the same is it really?
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no, okay, I knew you were joking she said quote.
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I can remember breaking the tape but I wasn't sure that I'd won.
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It was so close.
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But my friends in the stands jumped over the railing and came down and put their arms around me and then I knew I'd won.
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Then, when they raised the flag, I cried.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, as you do.
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I mean, who doesn't cry when the flag's raised?
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I do every time.
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She went on to win silver in the women's relay race.
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Is this at the same olympics?
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Okay?
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with the us team finishing second to the canadian team okay one of the disqualified canadians, myrtle cook from the original.
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Yeah from the 100 meters um.
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She made sure she was gonna win that one so well she didn't want to fuck up again she sure did.
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Okay, so when?
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So when Betty and the team's ship pulled into New York, they were pretty much mobbed.
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There was a parade, speeches that went on forever, lunches, and they even met Babe Ruth oh nice.
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And during all of this Betty turned 17.
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Well, huzzah, they went back to Chicago.
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The whole thing started over again More crowds, more parades, more speeches.
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And then they made it to Riverdale.
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And guess what?
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Another parade.
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Did they have?
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enough people in Riverdale to have a parade.
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20,000 people showed up.
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Oh wow yeah, Everyone chipped in and bought her a diamond watch and her high school gave her a silver cup.
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And that is literally all I have on that subject Silver cup.
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Did they at least inscribe her name on it?