The Paris council voted on Friday evening that the future 8,000-seat sports enclosure Arena 2, built towards the Porte de la Chapelle, bears the name of Alice Milliat (1884-1957). At the initiative of the project, the president of the communist group Nicolas Bonnet-Oulaldj explains: “The Olympics that we wanted is first and foremost an inclusive, united vision, which wants to advance the place of women’s sport in society. . “President of the Federation of Women’s Sports Societies in France, at the beginnings of” high-level “women’s sport, Milliat pushed for the incorporation of women’s events into the Games in 1919 before creating and then leading the International Women’s Sports Federation and to organize the Women’s World Games.
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