Alice Milliat, born Alice Josephinne Marie Million on 5 May 1884 and living until 19 May 1957, was a French pioneer of women's sport whose lobbying on behalf of female athletes led to the accelerated inclusion of more women's events in the Olympic Games. A member of the Femina Sport club, founded in 1911, she helped form the Federation Francaise Sportive Feminine in 1917, becoming its treasurer and then, from March 1919, its president. In 1921 she helped organize the first Women's World Games and went on to lead the Women's World Games through four editions held between 1922 and 1934, and she also managed a French women's association football team on a 1920 tour of the United Kingdom. A commemorative statue of Milliat was unveiled at the French Olympic Committee's Paris headquarters on 8 March 2021.
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