Women competed for the first time at the 1900 Games in Paris. Of a total of 997 athletes, 22 women competed in five sports: tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrianism and golf. The IOC is committed to ...
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First there was blind terror, then brutal subjugation and a pain so excruciating it has seared into Hazel Behan's soul. The Irish mum-of-three describes how, ...