A homemade training groundSourced
From dirt roads to Olympic gold
Racial segregation denied Alice Coachman access to proper sports facilities. She ran barefoot on dirt roads and practised jumping with homemade equipment. At London in 1948, she won the high jump and became the first Black woman to win Olympic gold.
A makeshift training ground was the beginning.
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