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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Women in Sports

by Randi Druzin
ISBN 0-921835-69-8

Female athletes have been fighting for legitimacy since Ancient Greece, when girls ran in races wearing knee-length tunics that exposed their right breasts. When women exchanged their corsets for bloomers and took up cycling en masse in the late 1800s, the wheels of progress were set in motion. Today, women are active at every level of competition in dozens of sports. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Women in Sports traces opposition to women in sports throughout the ages and catalogues women's trials and triumphs, sport by sport.

Randi Druzin has been passionate about sports and writing since the third grade, when she hit her first home run and penned her first story, about an imaginary flesh-eating guinea pig.

Two decades later, Randi moved to the Czech Republic. During her five years there, she worked as sports editor at The Prague Post and filed sports stories to publications such as The New York Times, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star.

Since returning to Canada in 1998, Randi has worked in the sports section of the National Post (writer and copy editor) and at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television show, Sports Journal (producer)