1928. However, to Milliat, this was not enough, since men were allowed to compete in 22 events. The British women's team boycotted the Amsterdam games for the same reason. Two further World Games were held in Prague in 1930 (featuring other sports in addition to athletics) and in London in 1934. After these games, Milliat issued an ultimatum: fully integrate the 1936 Olympics, or cede all women's participation to the FSFI. This led the IAAF to appoint a special commission to cooperate with the FSFI, which ceded control of international women's athletics to the IAAF in exchange for an expanded program and a recognition of records set in the Women's Games. Although the FSFI had staged events with an increasing number of participants, and expanded its membership from the initial five nations to at the 1922 Games to thirty countries in 1936, it never met again after the decision about the 1936 Olympics, and Milliat's engagement with women's sport ended. Under successive IOC presidents, the proportion of women competitors at the Olympics never rose above 15% until the 1970s. Milliat died on in Paris on 19 May 1957. Legacy In 1934, Milliat spoke to an interviewer from the Women's Magazine Independent Woman. In her statement, she advocated for women's suffrage in France. She believed women's suffrage would lead to greater support for women's sports. Carpentier believes that Milliat's feminist beliefs have been glossed over or ignored in earlier biographical accounts, and claims that these beliefs were central to inspiring Milliat's endeavours on behalf of women's sport. In a 1934 interview, Milliat said: The Fondation Alice Milliat was established in 2016 and promotes women's sport in France and the rest of Europe. There are gymnasiums named after Milliat in Bordeaux and in Paris. On 8 March 2021, a statue of Alice Milliat was unveiled at the French Olympic Committee's headquarters in Paris, in recognition of her efforts for the recognition of women's sports. In The Times later than month, Elgan Alderman wrote that the 1921 Women's World Games was a "seismic moment" for progress in women's sport at the Olympics, and that no-one had contributed more than Milliat in enabling the development. Mary Leigh and Thérèse M. Bonnin concluded in 1977 that without Milliat and the FSFI's efforts, track and field events at the Olympics would only have been opened to women much later. References 1884 births 1957 deaths French football