Colin Sheridan: Why is women’s sport still searching for the finishing line?

Perhaps it’s time we re-evaluate the concept of strength, and the way we choose to define it

FINE MARGINS: Ireland’s Phil Healy just misses out on a medal in the final of the Women’s 400m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun on Saturday. Picture: Inpho/Morgan Treacy

“At the time, the prevailing mindset and myth were that women were not physiologically able to run 26.2 miles. They said women couldn’t do something that arduous, that it might turn a woman's features into that of a man, and a doctor had told me straight away that my uterus would fall out.” 

— Kathrine Switzer