The Women's Movement In Sports

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Because of the women's movement in sports a great number of successful women athletes has been born. According to ESPN any great women evolved such as Mia Ham who was a successful soccer player. She appeared in the first four women world cups and where she won two of them. In 1996 and 2004 she won a gold in the Summer Olympics. She has 158 career goals in international competition, more than any other man or woman. Was also named Women's FIFA World Player of the Year the first two times the award was issued, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a 4-time Olympian and 6-time Olympic medalist who twice won gold in the Heptathlon in track and field. The magazine Sports Illustrated named her the greatest female athlete of the 20th century. Lisa Leslie