Notable Early Women Olympians

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Despite Pierre de Coubertin's vision of the Olympics being for male athletes only, women did participate in the games starting in 1900. But the road to equal participation was long and filled with disappointments.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
0:05.0	1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. At a Morehouse college, the students make their move.
0:12.7	These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the board of trustees, including Martin Luther King's senior.
0:21.0	It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never forget.
0:26.3	I'm Hans Charles.
0:27.3	I'm Minnick Lamouber.
0:28.5	Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.2	When segregation was a law, one mysterious black club owner, Charlie Fitzgerald, had his own rules.
0:41.7	Segregation and the day integration at night.
0:44.7	It was like stepping on another world.
0:47.1	Was he a businessman? A criminal. A hero.
0:51.2	Charlie was an example of power.
0:55.2	They had to crush you.
0:58.9	Charlie's Place, from Atlas Obscura and visit Myrtle Beach.
1:04.2	Listen to Charlie's Place on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:09.9	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:18.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.
1:20.3	And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
1:23.8	It's Olympics time once again.
1:24.4	Yes.
1:32.8	We've discussed the Olympics many times on the podcast before. But today we are going to focus on women who participated in the early iterations of the modern Olympic Games, or at least tried to.
1:40.6	One of the people that we're talking about today is technically not an Olympian.
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