Alice Milliat

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Alice Milliat was a pioneer of women's sport in France and was the secretary general of the Federaton Francaise Sportive Feminine. She was born in Nantes in 1884 and campaigned to have Women's Athletics accepted into the Olympics by the IOC.

In 1920 she assembled a football (Soccer) team of women from Paris that toured the UK and played the Dick, Kerr's Ladies on behalf of France in the world first internationally recognised Women's Football tournament.

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