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Topic: Track and Field

Tamari Davis and ShaCarri Richardson in "Sprint" (Netflix)

"These athletes should be more famous"

Gabriella Ferrigine
Naomi Osaka at the 2021 French Open Tennis Tournament and Brianna McNeal in the Women 100 Meter Hurdles at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials (Photo illustration by Salon/Tim Clayton/Corbis/Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Toll of policing Black women athletes

Kylie Cheung

Brendan Gauthier
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-52846p1.html'>Artur Bogacki</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Prachi Gupta
Lolo Jones (Reuters/Mark Blinch)

Lolo Jones cries alone

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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John Pye