Over the years, there have been many versions of the Olympic Games. One version was the International Workers’ Olympiads, which positioned itself in opposition to the “bourgeois” Olympics.
(For a list of Olympics that happened before the 1896 Olympics in Athens, check out this post.)
As I stated in my previous post, the International Workers’ Olympiads gave Swiss women the opportunity to compete internationally at a time when the FIG didn’t allow women to compete. (At the Olympic level, women first competed in gymnastics at the 1928 Olympics.)
So, let’s take a look at what happened at the First International Workers’ Olympiads in 1925.
