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FREDIA GIBBS: MULTISPORT SUPERNOVA CONTINUES TO SHINE

Her name doesn’t appear on any “top athletes of the past 100 years” lists, but the sum total of her combat and multisport accomplishments remains unmatched even by the most prominent sports figures, male and female. One could even say that her glaring absence from all those compilations is an embarrassment. In today’s world of endorsements and lucrative contracts, Gibbs should be a billion-dollar athlete because she was light-years ahead of her time.

Why do I call her a supernova? Consider

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