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The inspiring and irresistible true storyline of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Platinum When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Video games in Amsterdam, she was taking part in that which was only her fourth-ever organized trail meet. She crossed the finish collection as a yellow metal medalist and the quickest woman on earth. This improbable athletic phenom was a typical high school learner, discovered running for a train in rural Illinois mere a few months before her Olympic debut. Amsterdam made her a star. But at the top of her game, her job (and life) almost emerged to a tragic end when a plane she and her cousin were piloting crashed. So dire was Betty's condition that she was taken up to the neighborhood morgue; only after the undertaker's inspection was it decided she was still inhaling and exhaling. Betty, once an all natural runner who always coasted to success, soon found herself struggling with to walk. While Betty was recovering, the other women of Track and Field received the opportunity to glimmer in the Los Angeles Video games, building on Betty's pioneering role as the first girl Olympic champ in the activity. These sports athletes became more obvious plus more accepted, as stars like Babe Didrikson and Stella Walsh showed the planet what women could do. And - miraculously - through grit and many time of training, Betty attained her way onto the 1936 Olympic team, again locking her sights on yellow metal as she and her American teammates went against the German favorites in Hitler's Berlin. Told in vivid depth with novelistic flair, Hearth on the Track is an unforgettable portrait of the trailblazers in action.
