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A Runner's Journey (Paperback)
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A Runner's Journey (Paperback)
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In the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada's most celebrated
athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe,
participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance
running and a revival in Canadian track and field. He quickly
became a symbol of Canadian youth and the subject of endless media
coverage. Although most athletes of his generation were cautioned
to keep their opinions to themselves, Kidd took it upon himself to
speak out on the problems and possibilities of Canadian sport.
Encouraged by his parents and teammates, Kidd criticized the racism
and sexism of amateur sport in Canada, the treatment of players in
the National Hockey League, American control of the Canadian
Football League, and the uneven coverage of sports by the media -
and he continues to fight for equity to this day. After retiring
from his career as an athlete, Kidd became a well-known advocate
for gender and racial justice and an academic leader at the
University of Toronto. Depicting a Canadian sport legend's journey
of joy, discovery, and activism, this memoir bears witness to the
remarkable changes Bruce Kidd has lived through in more than
seventy years of participation in Canadian and international
sports.
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