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Podcast: Women to Watch MediaÂŽ with Sue Rocco
Episode: Alexandra Allred, Author, Advocate & Athlete
Description: Alexandra Allred, an athlete, author, environmental advocate, and fitness instructor, shared the story behind her title with us on March 1, 2023.Alexandra made sports (and medical) history through activism and determination. When she learned that women were not allowed in bobsled, she lobbied for equal status with a relentless letter-writing campaign. It had not yet occurred to her that she had no idea how to actually bobsled. As a former fighter in martial arts, she had only cared that women were banned from a sport deemed âtoo dangerousâ and âtoo fast.âWhen told that the womenâs program had...