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Adin Dobkin is the author of Sprinting Through No Man’s Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France, named a 2022 coup de coeur by the American Library in Paris, and These Bones Can Speak: A Border Fable of the Progressive Era. His essays, criticism, and reporting have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, and the LA Review of Books, among others. Adin teaches at the City University of New York and lives in Brooklyn with his partner and their two cats. For more information, visit www.adindobkin.com. ...more

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“Impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and improper,” read a section of the IOC’s report following the Stockholm Games on women’s competitions. Even”
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“To their right, behind a row of nearer peaks, stood Mont Blanc, the tallest in Western Europe—a monument to those things humans can crawl their way up but not alter.”
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“Mounted on these machines, if equally proficient in the use of them, the average man and woman are nearly equal as they perhaps ever can be in any undertaking requiring muscular energy and skill.”
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