The race to be myself
a memoir
The race to be myself
a memoir
Book - 2023
"Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are"--
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| 37413321951925 | Disponible | Non-fiction | B SEMENYA SEMENYA |
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| Format: | Livre |
| Langue: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2023]
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| Édition: | First edition. |
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| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b W.W. Norton & Company, |c [2023] | |
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| 300 | |a 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b color illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue -- The beginning. God made me ; A different kind of girl ; I am not afraid ; Hunting with boys ; The change ; Thabiso The rise. Where I belong ; They saw me run ; On the way up ; A higher education ; The troubles begin ; Berlin -- The awakening. Not woman enough ; You magazine ; The nothingness ; Hope ; The comeback ; Love and happiness -- The redemption. Road to London 2012 ; God in Rio ; Return of the IAAF ; Inside the court ; The aftermath -- Epilogue: The Cobra. | |
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