Name: B4L7 聽力策略（聆聽要點） (B4L7 聽力策略(Listen for the Gist))
Uploaded: 2025-06-24T09:17:34.000Z
Duration: 1 min 37 s

Our topic today is Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon.

我們今天的主題是第一位參加波士頓馬拉松賽的女性選手 Kathrine Switzer。

You may or may not have heard the name Kathrine Switzer.

你可能聽說過凱瑟琳-斯威策這個名字，也可能沒有。

But you will soon hear about how her determination contributed greatly to gender equality.

但你很快就會聽到她的決心是如何為性別平等做出巨大貢獻的。

Let's first go back to the year 1967, before the Boston incident.

讓我們先回到波士頓事件之前的 1967 年。

That was when gender discrimination was typical.

Women were not allowed to compete and were thought to be incapable of running 42 kilometers.

婦女不能參加比賽，而且被認為沒有能力跑 42 公里。

Kathrine Switzer was a 20-year-old university student who disagreed.

20 歲的大學生凱瑟琳-斯威策（Kathrine Switzer）對此並不認同。

She signed up for the Boston Marathon using the name K.V. Switzer.

她用 K.V. Switzer 的名字報名參加了波士頓馬拉松賽。

Of course, things didn't go smoothly, she was stopped by a racing official.

當然，事情並不順利，她被賽馬官員攔了下來。

She was extremely frightened, but she kept going and finished the marathon.

她非常害怕，但還是堅持跑完了馬拉松。

Due to the intense media coverage Switzer received, women were soon accepted as competitors.

由於媒體對斯威策的大力報道，女性選手很快被接受。

Switzer later became a speaker and writer and helped to promote women's right to participate in races.

斯威策後來成為一名演講家和作家，並幫助促進婦女參加比賽的權利。

She was also recognized as a major force behind the addition of the women's marathon to the Olympic Games in 1984.

她還是 1984 年奧運會增設女子馬拉松項目的主要推動者。