This impressive demonstration by the two hundred sixty two women runners from all five continents cause the International Association of athletics federations to send to observe this about new york to see whether this math and discipline was a worthy olympic sport for women. Attention around the subject group in one nine hundred seventy nine women were running their own races the way to the Olympic Games seems to be open. From that we realize that women would participate if they were given an event that was not intimidating and welcoming to them and i thought this is the way to get the marathon in the Olympic Games. The goal was clear the marathon women wanted to take part in the Olympic Games and dispel the prejudices once and for all in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine the german sports show thats our sports studio even broadcast a Panel Discussion on the matter. Back in boston at the finishing line. So the greeks so Catherine Smith says meeting one of todays race directors a conversation about the preparations to the race. Who to pick three time winner of the Boston Marathon is in the press center memories of a time when women running the marathon wasnt commonly accepted jet. Skiing up and decision talking points included the safety and health of women if you allow some women to run then thousands of women will want to run many things werent that accepted back then and these areas have to be broken down fast yes motes and. Then you must. Have trained switzer placed second in boston in one hundred seventy five. She traveled around the world. Los angeles in one thousand nine hundred for. The Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games. There was a new entry among the competitions the womens marathon. I had invested so much of my life and emotion and work into trying to have this moment happened and here it was it was happening and it was happening so beautifully. Fifty women run a stood at the start line in the santa monica stadium ready to run forty two kilometers. I think one or two labs i forget how many at the beginning and then they went out and went around town and wherever. Someone high above must lead an american when john Benoit Samuelson is a great great writer and another person who pushed very hard for womens equality. And we watched joan Benoit Samuelson break away very early in the race and theres that moment you think is a some bad mistake because shes with very experienced people but she took a huge risk and it turned out to be one of the most amazing races in history. But who could ever forget her running through the streets of los angeles and heading to the Olympic Stadium and you know theres that tunnel that you have to go through into the stadium and as she headed toward that tunnel i was thinking how much shes like womens history in that because shes outside of the tunnel and then she goes into the darkness and when she comes out of that dark and shes going to be in a stadium that is going to erupt. She took the race right onto the track ran an incredibly fast lap and crossed the finish line to you know ninety thousand people screaming. And i thought this moment is as important as giving women the right to vote. I said to my coach to Everyone Wants this race the most is going to when it was my day at the stars were aligned for me. Because then. I just ran my own race. This is the the payoff known. Twenty minutes after the last person came. Another woman came and took the real last. A swiss woman named gaboriau. Anderson. And. She was apparently missed. Water station she she had no no sugar in her body. Cameras stayed on her for six minutes as she went around the stadium and it seemed agonizing seemed like you know years and the crowd was cheering her and cheering her and willing her but the whole time i was also thinking whats going to happen now are people going to say women are too weak and too fragile after all it was a really difficult evening for me and i just whipped from this high to this low. I felt so sorry for Gabriel Anderson because she was an incredible athlete it was the next day she was bright as a button went to a press conference recovered and instead of people saying that was a terrible thing they made her a heroine and i said yes maybe equality is also about being allowed to be exhausted in public. The day of the Boston Marathon last Easter MondayKatherine Switzer early in the morning before the start. Of the race starts here in hopkinton fifty years ago it was a journey into the unknown for cancer in switzerland. Today shes participating in the race with a round one hundred women from her two six one fearless movement. On. The road to the start her number two six one has long become a symbol. They were even tattooing themselves and when people send you a tattoo of your obit number and say this makes me feel fearless you have to take it seriously we decided to create a movement with this and a nonprofit called two six one fearless and to use that same vehicle to reach women who are fearful fearless women like us with running what help fearful women because it changes lives. Thanks boston Katherine Switzer can finally start running. Director of global two six one club network. Is following the race in the media center. Says quote on the start she got to the start well which is quite a challenge in boston and then she got going in high spirits with our hundred runners and what was great is that we made a live recording in the at that place where the incident took place back then somerset five percent of the