It was 1922, two years before the last time the Olympics were held in Paris. On a warm August day, about 20,000 people came to Pershing Stadium to watch 77 athletes in track and field, including a team from the United States. And at the start, a 38-year-old woman named Alice Milliat welcomed the world to Paris. She was the founder of the International Women’s Sports Federation, known in her native France as the Fédération Sportive Féminine International. Every competitor that day was a woman.

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Persons: Alice Milliat, “ Organizations: Pershing, International Women’s Sports Federation, Sportive Féminine International, Olympic Locations: Paris, United States, France