Olympic Movement objective to include everybody and everything involved in the Summer Games, national sport governing bodies, athletes, media, and sponsors of the Summer Games. The Summer Games involve a number of organizations, the three major organizations are International Sports Federations (IFs), the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games (OCOGs) and all other recognised federations, institutions and organisations. All these organizations are collectively known as the Olympic Movement.
The first objective of the Olympic Movement has always been to promote Olympism and develop sport worldwide. The International Olympic Committee is the head of the Olympic Movement and has always played a key role to promote women's participation in sport at all levels. The increasing number of women athletes in the Olympics is the result of the cooperation of the entire Olympic Movement and of the measures taken by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Federations (IFs) and National Olympic Committees (NOCs).
In the early years of the modern Olympics, women were not well represented. Women first competed at the 1900 Paris Games. Eleven women are allowed to compete in lawn tennis and golf. The first woman to win an Olympic event was England's Charlotte Cooper, who won the tennis singles in 1900. Over time passed more women events were added, and currently Boxing is the only Summer Olympic sport that does not include events for women, though this is set to change in London Olympic Games 2012.
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