At school, I was a bit of an anomaly, a female athlete in an academic setting.
Tennis player Maria Sharapova was the richest female athlete, with earnings boosted by lucrative endorsement deals.
And in victory, Ms. Solo could become one of the top 10 female athlete endorsers globally.
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Despite low visibility and a challenging course she qualified three-and-a-half seconds faster than any other female athlete.
The International Association of Athletics Federations, in 1999, voted her the greatest female athlete of the 20th century.
The book tackles the challenges of being a young female athlete.
In a separate development on Monday, a female athlete from Belarus was stripped of her gold medal in the London Olympics after failing two drugs tests.
Sharapova has remained an endorsement star and the highest-paid female athlete in the world since then as more deals followed with the likes of Land Rover, Sony Ericsson and Tiffany.
Hamm was a pioneer for gender equality in sports and this year ESPN named her the greatest female athlete of the last 40 years, which covers the Title IX era.
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She still holds the world record in the heptathlon, which she set in Seoul in 1988, and was named the Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th Century by Sports Illustrated for Women.
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Every country will have at least one female athlete after Saudi Arabia included two women in its team for the first time, setting an important precedent for women's rights in the kingdom.
The wheelchair-bound javelin and shot put thrower was the women's Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award winner in Sunday's Paralympic closing ceremony -- an award given to a male and a female athlete who exemplify the Paralympic spirit.
"Hopefully, this resolution will set a precedent so that no female athlete in the future will have to experience the long delays and public scrutiny which Caster has been forced to endure, " added Nott's fellow lawyer Jeffrey Kessler.
In late June, an unsigned statement from the Saudi Embassy in London said the kingdom would send a female athlete if one qualified but it quickly emerged that no Saudi woman had the training and experience to meet Olympic qualifying times.
This year's world indoor hurdles champion Derval O'Rourke will be expected to claim a place in the final of the 100H but the most impressive Irish female athlete at the moment is Joanne Cuddihy who clocked a superb 51.28 for 400m at Santry at the weekend.
Her mother Dorcus Semenya has told the BBC that the athlete is certainly female.
Some of the biggest names of London 2012 received CBEs - the UK's most successful female rower, Katherine Grainger, the poster girl of the Games, Jessica Ennis, and wheelchair athlete David "The Weirwolf" Weir.
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