While the modern Olympics have been around since 1896, it is only since 1928 that women can participate.
And that, thanks to Alice Milliat.
The sportswoman, the first woman to have traveled 80 kilometers on the Seine in less than twelve hours, worked throughout her life to change the French sports model.
Having become the president of Femina Sport in 1915, the first women's sports club, Alice Milliat fights so that women can attend the Olympic Games.
But in 1920, the committee still did not accept them.
"The real Olympic hero is in my eyes the individual adult male", even said Pierre de Coubertin, the creator of the modern Games.
Never mind, the feminist decided to create her own women's world games, in 1922 in Paris.
This event was such a popular success that the Olympic Games accepted the participation of women in 1928.
Aurélie Bresson, President of the Alice Milliat Foundation, looks back on the life of this pioneer of women's rights in the video of our partner Brut.
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