00:00It was the first time women had ever been allowed to run the Olympic marathon. The common belief
00:04among sports officials, medical authorities, and the general public at the time were that women
00:09were too fragile to compete in long-distance races. So, as Gabriella Anderson Scheiss entered
00:14the scorching hot stadium after already running over 40 kilometers in the muggy LA heat and
00:20humidity, she was in trouble, but she knew that she couldn't stop. She wasn't going to win the
00:24race. There were many women who had already crossed the finish line ahead of her, but as
00:28she heard the crowd swell, thousands of women watching on in awe, witnessing the strength
00:33that they'd been told that they didn't possess. For Gabriella, it was about much more than
00:37an Olympic medal. The medical staff rushed in to stop her, but she turned them away, and
00:42as she stumbled back and forth across the track, Gabriella continued wheeling her legs forward
00:47one step at a time, until she did it.
