Olympian Cheryl Toussaint says that when she discovered competitive running at age 13, “I began to believe in my own personal ability to achieve.” Now she's bringing opportunities to the next generation of young women athletes.
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The Olympian and director of the Colgate Women’s Games says becoming a runner at age 13 changed her lifeDeSean McClinton-Holland for The Wall Street JournalOlympic medalist Cheryl Toussaint loved running as a child, and she was good at it. She raced against boys and often beat them. “It always became a showdown,” she recalls. “They would say, ‘She’s pretty fast.
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