68-Year-Old Woman Runs Triathlons to Fight for Human Rights

Age Doesn’t Stop Her Running for a Cause

Jeanne Mitchell training for triathlon with Freedom for Falun Dafa shirt. NTD Television/Shenhua Sung

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, NEW JERSEY—Jeanne Mitchell, 68, came in third in her age group at her first triathlon last year.

“I’m not sure where it came from, I just had this crazy idea that I wanted to do a triathlon,” Mitchell said to NTD.