Since Alfonsina Strada, who dared race in the Giro against men in 1924, to swimmer Yusra Mardini, a refugee from Siria, here are just some of the women who revolutionised sport. But some have gone even further.Īware of the transformative power of sport, some women have used it as a platform to fight against sexism, racism, hatred of homophobia, economic inequality or prejudice against immigrants. In some, such as football or cycling, it has been a long, hard struggle. Just as in every sector of society, women have had to fight for their place in sport. If he could raise his head today and see that in the Tokyo Olympic Games there will be near complete gender equality he'd likely go scurrying back to his tomb. An exercise in misogyny that can only be understood in the context of the era. Baron Pierre de Coubertain, founder of the Olympic movement, said at the start of the 20th century that there was no place for women in sport, because it would be "impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper".
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