Anita DeFrantz
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Rowing and the Olympic movement, United States. DeFrantz won bronze in the women's eight at the 1976 Olympics and in 1980 led an unsuccessful lawsuit by athletes against the US Olympic Committee over the Moscow boycott. She joined the IOC in 1986 and in 1997 became its first female vice-president, using the role to push for more women in IOC positions and in Olympic events.
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