Who is Alice Milliat, the organizer of the primary ladies's Olympic Games in 1922? | EUROtoday

Stade Pershing, within the Bois de Vincennes, August 20, 1922: a lady in a hat solemnly proclaims to a crowd of 20,000 individuals: “I proclaim open the primary ladies's Olympic Games on this planet. » Five nations are collaborating, together with the United States and England, and 77 athletes.

The identical day, in an interview with Little Journal, the initiator of those Games declared bluntly: “And why shouldn’t we even have our Olympic Games? I do know that our initiative tremendously moved the organizers of the boys's Olympic Games. Let these gents make their mea culpa! »

Two weeks earlier, the French Olympic Committee, on the final second, prohibited Alice Milliat from attaching the time period “Olympic”, remembers Sophie Danger in a biography she has simply devoted to her…