Before heading into the soon-to-be iconic 2024 Paris Olympic Games, here's a look back at the history of women at the Summer Olympics.
During the early years, better known as theIn fact, the only way for women to even remotely participate was for them to enter their horses into equestrian events. Owning and entering a horse into an event, not riding the horses, were the only option women had to make any sort of mark in the Games. And usually the women weren’t even allowed to be present at these events.
The year 2000 was a notable one for women. A number of events were added to the Olympic program for women, including weightlifting, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, triathlon and gymnastics trampoline. Athletes experiencing gender changes in Olympic sports has always been something dealt with by the individual sports federation that was applicable. But then, something changed. The number of these cases escalated so much that it was inevitable to alter the rules.
Right before becoming a sophomore in high school, Ledecky won her first Olympic gold medal event at the Games. Four years later in Rio, she became the second woman to ever win the 200-, 400- and 800-meter freestyle events.
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