国立アメリカ歴史博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (国立アメリカ歴史博物館Instagram)「Dominique Dawes began her Olympic career at the age of 15. She wore this gymnastics leotard at the 1996 Summer Olympic games in Atlanta, where she was a member of the gold-medal winning "Magnificent Seven." The 1996 Olympics marked a pivot point in women's sports as girls raised under Title IX brought home the most medals in what would become known "The Summer of Women." Dawes began taking gymnastics classes at age 6 and started planning to reach the Olympics at a young age. As she later remarked, "[e]leven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast because we normally peak in high school." For girls like Dawes, athleticism opened a door to self-expression. Dawes remembered that gymnastics taught her to dream and to find a way to achieve all that she was capable of. As a gymnast, Dawes became famous for her back-to-back tumbling passes on the floor exercise. She eventually won four medals in three Olympics. Girls have always played sports, from all-girls baseball teams in the 1800s through pick-up games that occur in every neighborhood. Yet they faced cultural barriers (the idea that girls were not athletic) and structural barriers that denied them equipment and a place to play. The federal government changed that in 1972 when it added Title IX to the Civil Rights Act and barred discrimination based on sex and race. Adequate resources challenged beliefs that girls could not play. Dominique Dawes's story and leotard will be on display in our new exhibition, Girlhood: It's complicated, opening in person and online this today, October 09: s.si.edu/girlhood Want to take a closer look at Dawes’s Olympic leotard? Beginning today, you can explore this and many other objects from the show in #3D! Follow the link in our bio to visit @smithsonian3d’s site and take an interactive tour of the 3D model: https://s.si.edu/2SFTTmi #AmericanHistory #GirlhoodHistory #GirlHistory #Girlhood #WomensHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #SportsHistory Girlhood: It's complicated received support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative. #BecauseOfHerStory」10月10日 4時06分