It takes the average reader 5 hours and 15 minutes to read Women and the Olympic Dream by Maria Kaj
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
On an April morning in 1896, unemployed single mother Stamata Revithi ran the 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens, finishing in 5 hours 30 minutes. Barred from the first Olympic marathon, she was determined to prove herself. Through more than a century of Olympic Games history, women athletes--who were held back from swimming because long skirts were required, limited to running single-lap races because of fallacies about fragility, or forced to endure invasive gender exams--competed in spite of endless challenges. From Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020, this history of women's participation in the...
Women and the Olympic Dream by Maria Kaj is 307 pages long, and a total of 78,899 words.
This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 11 minutes to read Women and the Olympic Dream aloud.
Women and the Olympic Dream is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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