12 Badass Female Athletes Who Gave Zero Fucks
It was December of 1966 when Kathrine Switzer suggested to her coach, Arnie Briggs, that she sign up for the Boston Marathon. Switzer didn’t give a single, solitary fuck that no woman had ever run the marathon before; she just loved running and wanted to do it. Switzer finished the race, becoming the first woman to do so.
The year was 1973, and Billie Jean King had dominated just about every female opponent she played on the way to six Wimbledon singles championships and four US Open titles. Seeing this, male tennis player Bobby Riggs challenged King to a match, saying that women, “should stay in the bedroom.”
Did King give any fucks? Nope. Instead, she waltzed into that match, already dubbed the “Battle of the Sexes,” and completely trounced Riggs in three straight sets.
If the stories about Margaret Abbott are true, then she was a 100% bona fide badass. Way back in 1900, the second modern Olympics were being held in Paris. As the story goes, Abbott and her mother were visiting Paris for the World’s Fair and signed up to play in what they thought was just a friendly golf tournament.
Without knowing it, they had actually signed up for the Olympics. Abbott casuallyplayed her way to a first-place finish, then went on back home to America where she lived the rest of her life without even knowing that she was the first-ever female Olympic champion in golf. Zero fucks given.
Diana Nyad was already a boss-as-hell long-distance swimmer, having accomplished such feats as SWIMMING AROUND THE ENTIRETY OF MANHATTAN and SWIMMING FROM THE FRICKIN’ BAHAMAS TO FLORIDA.
But Nyad really made headlines when, in 2013, she became the first person to swim from Florida to Cuba without the aid of a shark cage, because Diana Nyad gives approximately no fucks about sharks.
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