created the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) and instituted the 1922 Women's World Games in opposition to the 1922 Women's Olympiad to ensure feminist control over women's international sports competitions. French Athletics Federation (FFA) archive records show that Marcel Delabre, vice-president of the FFA and chair of the 1921 Women's Olympiad organising committee, saw the Women's Olympiad as a means for the FFA to control women's athletics. The 1921 Women's Olympiad took place on a pigeon shooting field, in the absence of a running track. In 1922, 300 athletes competed, representing seven nations. Further editions of the Women's Olympiad were held in 1923 and 1924. Meanwhile, in 1917, Milliat had organised a successful women's association football tournament, and in 1920 she assembled and managed a football team of women from Paris that toured the United Kingdom and, representing France, and played against the Dick, Kerr's Ladies in the first European international women's football tournament. From the early 1920s, she was a writer for French magazines including Le Soldat de Demain and L'Auto, and promoted football for women in articles. Women's World Games In August 1922, the Jeux Olympiques Féminins (also known as the 1922 Women's World Games), regarded as the first Women's Olympics took place in Pershing Stadium in Paris and featured five teams, representing including the United States, Great Britain, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and host country France. Eleven athletics events were conducted and the 20,000 strong crowd saw eighteen athletes break several world records. The choice of venue was influenced by Paris being the home city of Coubertin, who was among the most vocal opponents to women's participation in the Olympics, as Milliat wanted the games to be a showcase to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). When Henri de Baillet-Latour succeeded Coubertin as head of the IOC, the intention was to hold the next event in his home country, but the Belgian organisers withdrew their participation. Infuriated by the use of the term 'Olympic Games', the IOC convinced Milliat and the FSFI to change the name of their event in exchange for adding 10 women's events to the 1928 Olympics. As such, the next edition of the event, held in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1926, was termed the Women's World Games. Ten teams took part in this edition of the Games. Due to pressure from the FSFI, the IOC eventually integrated five women's track and field events into the Olympics in