Three years before the Olympics last visited Paris in 1924, a small gathering of female athletes led by Alice Milliat staged their own Games as they were still largely excluded from the biggest sporting event in the world.
Female athletes competing at the Games was simply not “in keeping” with how Pierre de Coubertin envisioned the event he revived in 1896, an event he saw as an “exaltation of male athleticism … with the applause of women as a reward,” as he wrote in 1912.
And for athletes with children, there will be positive changes at this Olympics too, even if athletes rather than organizers are often the driving force behind them. Following pressure, most notably from French judo star Clarisse Agbegnenou, French Olympic Committee secretary general Astrid Guyart told reporters that breastfeeding athletes would be able to stay in hotels nearby the Olympic Village with their infants, per local media.
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