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Swimmer Helene Madison (1913–1970) of Seattle won three gold medals at the 1932 Olympic Games.
Seattle is home to an all-female flat track roller derby league called the Rat City Rollergirls.
The Seattle Dojo, which was founded before 1907, is the oldest judo academy in the United States.
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“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)