Long-armed Ludy and the first women's Olympics
Subtitle: based on the true story of Lucile Ellerbe Godbold
By: Jean L. Patrick ; illustrated by Adam Gustavson
Contributors: Gustavson, Adam, ill
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Watertown, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781580895460
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Women track and field athletes; Olympics; Track and field athletes
Description: Lucille  Ludy  Godbold grew up skinny, tall, and athletic. In her final year on the track team at Winthrop College in South Carolina, Ludy gave shot put a try and she made that iron ball sail with her long, skinny arms. When her coach took her to a meet in New York she qualified for the first Women s Olympic Games in 1922. Except she had no money to go.
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