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Named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire, Town & Country, and Electric Literature

Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories of these extraordinary athletes to explore in brilliant detail the struggle for understanding and equality. Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars.

In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions, what could have been a push toward equal

The Other Olympians

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 6 April 2024
      ISBN-13 9780374609818
      978-0374609818
      ISBN-10 0374609810
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      History of sport

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire, Town & Country, and Electric Literature

      Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories of these extraordinary athletes to explore in brilliant detail the struggle for understanding and equality. Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

      The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars.

      In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions, what could have been a push toward equal

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