When I was young I wanted to read about murder and now I want to read about game show scandals. Welcome to your wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall and today we are talking with

Maggie Mertens about women and the marathon. One marathon in particular, one marathon

scam in particular, and the bigger question beyond that

meant we didn't have an Olympic marathon for women

for women until 1984. I really loved doing this episode with Maggie. I love talking

about how American culture grapples with the idea of women and strength and gender

and performance and how all of this comes together. and to just be about sports. We're really bringing all of the baggage we have as people

into it for better or for worse and we learn so much about ourselves this way and also it's a great story. As always we have bonus

episodes for you on Patreon and Apple Plus subscriptions and the one we just

put out most recently is very close to my heart because I got to talk with Sarah Archer at length about both Rosemary's baby, a fantastic novel and the sequel to Rosemary's baby,

son of Rosemary, and we had a wonderful time talking about it.

So if you want to learn more about what happened to Rosemary

in 1999, I know I did then you can check that out there and of course we have lots of past episodes are Brittany

Spares memoir club with Eve Lindley. Extended cuts of some past

episodes including our George Michael series, Flowers in the Attic, we talked about

that last summer, a lot of stuff over there for you to look at.

Or you can spend your money on a whole lot of popsicles.

Thank you so much for listening.

Thank you for being here struggling through August with us.

Here's your show.

Welcome to your wrong about the podcast where we take you to the wide, wide world of sports and sometimes the scam scam

scammy world of sports as well. With me today is Maggie Mertens. Maggie, hello

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