The International Olympic Committee aims to “encourage and support the promotion in sport at all levels and in all structures, with a view to implementing the principle of equality of men and women”. Our site Ancient Olympic Games is completely committed to women sporting potential class who have earned their glory as an honored Olympian. We, at this site, celebrate the official participation and the achievements of women in the Olympics.
History depicts the picture that women's participation in the Olympic Movement has been escalating over the years. It has to be noted that the significant gains achieved by women at all sports level in the last 30 years is credited to the cooperation of the whole Olympic Movement and of pioneering measures that the International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Federations (IFs), National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and several sports volunteers who voiced to increase the number of women participating in the Olympic Games. It is also the strong determination of women from various countries who have doggedly strived to participate and play a full role in the sports movement and its improvement.
With the evolution of the female sports movement just after the Second World War, there took various other changes too. The first female team of athletes from Soviet Union participated to the 1952 Games and its members won gold medals. In 1964’s Tokyo Olympics, majority of masses had fixed their eyes on the Japanese female volleyball team, piling up the highest audience percentage. After a long period of struggle, it was only in 1984 that women were permitted to participate in the marathon.
Gradually women moves on and on and in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, women participated in all games, including judo. The path to Olympic has not been so easy. But now, when they are at the focus, their achievements are counted among the most stupendous in modern Olympics.