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Speaker 1: We honor great black athletes in women's sports history this

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Speaker 1: Black History Month, like figure skater Debbie Thomas. In nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty six, Thomas became the first black woman to win

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Speaker 1: the US figure skating singles Championship. She was also the

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Speaker 1: world champion that year, as well as a bronze medalist

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Speaker 1: at the nineteen eighty eight Winter Olympics, where she was

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Speaker 1: the first black woman to take home a medal at

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Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics. For more women's sports stories, be sure

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