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Martina Navratilova: Women
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Martina Navratilova is a marvel of fitness. She easily outruns many women who are half her age, still competes for titles on the women's tennis tour, and loves to have fun with other sports like basketball, hockey, skiing, and more. Every day, people ask her, "Why can you still move the way you do?" "How do you stay in such great shape?" "What's your secret?"
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Martina is a staunch supporter of women’s issues, gay rights, ethical treatment of animals, environmental protection and AIDS research. She is ... a founder of the Rainbow Card credit card program and the non-profit Rainbow Endowment. Since its inception in 1995, the Rainbow Endowment has been one of the strongest supporters of gay and lesbian charities in North America, having given grants in excess of $2 million dollars.
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In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Navratilova raised the women's game to a new level with power and aggression. The Czech-born left-hander, who became a naturalised American in 1975... set new standards with her astonishing fitness levels and commitment.
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A long rivalry formed between Martina and US tennis sweetheart Chris Everet. For more than 10 years, beginning in 1973, the two met more than 80 times. They swapped victories and gained fans to the sport of women's tennis. Ever the competitor, Navratilova has the lead in their matches winning 43 to Chris's 37. The two remain good friends to this day.
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As a player, Navratilova was bold and smart, and she dared to do things that others before and since could only imagine. She single-handedly reinvented women's tennis, taking the boundaries and limitations of women's tennis and shoving them higher and wider.
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