🏎️0️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ Hélène “Hellé Nice” Delangle
Meet Helen Delangle, aka “Hellé Nice,” a global sports celebrity who set speed records during her career-long quest to compete on equal terms with male counterparts on auto racing circuits from Europe and North Africa to the Americas.
⚽0️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Hakim Zermouni
Meet Hakim Zermouni, whose informal sports diplomacy experience demonstrated the power of sport through football.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ Bill Cain
Meet Bill Cain, the New York native who translated his NCAA student-athlete activist experience into a role as a sports ambassador for the United States, France, and Les Bleus in basketball.
🎾0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ Suzanne Lenglen
Meet Suzanne Lenglen, the trailblazing albeit at times controversial tennis player who as one of the first international sports stars helped revolutionize the game and sporting fashions in Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
🎿0️⃣1️⃣6️⃣ Donna Weinbrecht
Meet Donna Weinbrecht, the three-time Olympian and five-time World Cup Championship titan who won the historic first gold medal in freestyle moguls at the 1992 Albertville Games.
Mapping the Connections
The connections highlighted by #FranceAndUS Voices over time.
Blue = From the United States to France. Red = From France to the United States.