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Babe Didrikson Zaharias won two Olympic gold medals in track and field, then became the greatest female golfer of her era. She also played baseball, basketball, tennis, and dove competitively. No athlete before or since has dominated so many sports at such a high level.

This episode traces Zaharias from her working-class childhood in Texas through her Olympic triumphs, her controversial exclusion from amateur athletics, her reinvention as a professional golfer, and the cancer diagnosis she fought with the same ferocity she brought to every competition.

• She won two gold medals and one silver at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics in track and field
• She was stripped of her amateur status for appearing in a car advertisement
• She won ten LPGA major championships and co-founded the LPGA Tour
• She returned to professional golf after cancer surgery and won the U.S. Women's Open by twelve strokes