🥇🥈🥉0️⃣5️⃣3️⃣Leon Nelson
Meet Leon Nelson, a graduate student at New York University working in the sport industry who gained new insights about France, its culture, and sporting scene as an International Client Relations Manager at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
⚾0️⃣4️⃣5️⃣ Benjie Meleras
Meet Benjie Meleras, a French-American helping to elevate baseball on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣9️⃣Gail Marquis
Meet Gail Marquis, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer with the 1976 Olympic silver medal-winning U.S. team who blazed trails in the United States and France through basketball.
⚽0️⃣3️⃣5️⃣ Camille Abily
Meet Camille Abily, a soccer warrior who, after an international and professional playing career, is writing a new chapter as Assistant Coach at her former team Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, the world’s most dominant professional club.
⚽️0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ Laura Georges
Meet Laura Georges, Secretary-General of the French Football Federation (FFF) and former international and professional footballer who was one of the first French women to play NCAA D1 football in 2004.
🎿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.
🥇🥈🥉0️⃣1️⃣3️⃣ Pierre de Coubertin
Meet Pierre de Coubertin, the French aristocrat who founded the modern Olympic movement and was influenced in part by the sports culture he observed during his 1889 and 1893 trips to the United States.
🎽0️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ DeHart Hubbard
Meet DeHart Hubbard, the first U.S. Black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual event at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
🏀0️⃣0️⃣7️⃣ Gabby Williams
Meet Gabby Williams, the Franco-American WNBA veteran whose polyvalent hoops abilities helped Les Bleues win EuroBasket 2021 silver and Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medals.
⛳0️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ Margaret Ives Abbott
Meet Margaret Abbott, the first American woman to win an Olympic event in the golf competition at the Paris Olympics of 1900.
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.