What Weaker Sex?

Excellent
article this morning in the Globe about women competing
against men at the highest level of professional athletics.  The
article mentions Susy Whaley and Anika Sorensen in golf, Billie Jean
King in tennis, Nancy Lieberman in basketball and Janet Guthrie in auto
racing.

But let us not forget ex-Cambridge resident Susan
Butcher, four-time
winner of the murderous Iditarod 12-day dogsled race, over a field composed
almost exclusively of men.

And now comes word that Tanya
Streeter, a British woman known as "the
Human Torpedo" has not only smashed the woman’s freediving world record
of 311 feet, but surpassed the all-time men’s word record of 394 feet
as well, with a dive of 401 ft, without air or other aids. She was under
3 minutes, 38 seconds. read more….