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Nike Is A Goddess

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In the course of his 43-year career at TSU, Ed Temple produced _____ Olympians who won 26 medals, 17 being gold.
Florence Griffith-Joyner was reborn as Flo Jo after winning the 100 and 200-meter dash in the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials in _______.
_____ Institute was the first to extend its athletic program to women.
Women’s sports got its greatest legal boost when Congress passed ____ __ of the Education Act of 1972.
For American female athletes, track and field was still not an “______” sport.
The 200-meter ___ made its Olympic debut as a woman’s event in 1948.
In 1960, Rudolph and the Tigerbelles set a _____ _____ in the 4x100 meter relay.
The Berlin Games also marked the first Olympics in which a ____ _____ woman competed.
Rudolph was the first female track and field athlete to win the _____ Award, annually given to the country’s top amateur athlete.
____ _____ was the first African American woman to win 3 track and field gold medals in a single Olympics.
Track and Field was not as _______ as other women’s sports, even by 1960.
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Rudolph was the _____ member of the 1957 Olympic Track team.
Ed Temple and Earl Clanton III nicknamed the Tennessee State women’s team the _____ in 1952.
On November 19, 1895, ___ staged the first all-female track meet.
____ ___ __ shit down the Olympics in 1940 and 1944.
In 1937, Tuskegee won the ___ _____, a milestone for black colleges.
The women of Ancient Greece staged their own competitions, the _____.
America’s most storied female athlete
Track and Field’s biggest stage.
Wilma Rudolph learned to ___ in a homemade sand pit in front of her house.