celebrating the 40th anniversary of title ix, nike put out a cool commercial supporting young female athletes. it features 4 us olympians: lisa leslie (basketball), diana taurasi (basketball), marlen esparza (boxing) and joan benoit samuelson (marathon). samuelson had one of my quotes in the piece: “i’m 55 years old and i run close to 70 miles a week.” yo.
related: an op-ed by pres. obama on the impact of title ix.
