Marathoner Ari Hendrix is making history as one a few Black American women running in the Olympic Marathon trials.
This story discusses suicide. If your depressive symptoms are not improving or you are having thoughts of suicide, please contact your medical provider or the National Suicide Prevention Hotline , call 911, or go to your local emergency room.Until 2012, Ari Hendrix wasn’t a runner and certainly didn’t imagine herself lining up at the Olympic Marathon Trials.
That number includes 2020 Trials winner Aliphine Tuliamuk and third-place finisher Sally Kipyego, both Americans born in Kenya. From Hendrix’s perspective, representation has improved in the sport, especially in the last five years. “I think we’ve seen a lot more diverse communities coming and being in the running community, because I think that we’re all starting to see people who look like us and are being a part of it.
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