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🥇🥈🥉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.

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🎽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.

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🏀0️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ Martin Feinberg

Meet Martin Feinberg, the player and coach who was one of the first Americans to mark French basketball in the 1950s.

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 12/20/21 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 12/20/21

🏀0️⃣1️⃣0️⃣ Paoline Ekambi

Meet Paoline Ekambi, the 1993 European Vice-Champion and first French female to play NCAA Division 1 basketball in 1984.

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 11/22/21 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 11/22/21

🏀0️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ Katia Foucade-Hoard

Meet Katia Foucade-Hoard, the 1993 European Vice-Champion and first French woman to play four years of NCAA D1 basketball on scholarship.

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⛳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.

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 10/15/21 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 10/15/21

🏉🎩0️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ George H. Jackson

Meet George H. Jackson, the U.S. consul who helped lay La Rochelle’s rugby foundations in the early twentieth century.

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 10/12/21 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 10/12/21

🎾🎩0️⃣0️⃣4️⃣ JJ Jusserand

Meet JJ Jusserand, the French Ambassador to the United States who strengthened Franco-American relations as part of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s famed “Tennis Cabinet” in the early 20th century.

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 9/6/21 Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff 9/6/21

🎾0️⃣0️⃣3️⃣ Helen Wills

Meet Helen Wills, a groundbreaking tennis champion who famously “let my racquet do the talking” as she smashed records to become the first internationally-known American female sports celebrity in the 1920s.