Everyone knows the story that inspired the cinematic masterpiece 'Chariots of Fire'.
Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell's Paris 1924 legend continues to inspire and captivate athletes all around the world.
But what about those we don't remember? The forgotten stories that were lost in time.
This International Women's Day, we're looking back on some of the incredible stories of women that competed at Paris 1924.
The women who made history and forged the way for Paris 2024 to hold the title of the first Olympic Games to have a 50/50 split of male and female competitors.
A whole century since they stepped out in the City of Lights, here are the unknown stories of three incredible Team GB athletes.
Alice Walker
Paris 1924 - Fencing, women's individual foil
When it comes to fighting against gender roles in sport, Team GB's Alice Walker was one of the earliest activists.
Women's fencing made its Olympic debut in 1924, with Walker part of a four-strong British contingent in the event that comprised of 26 women.
Walker sadly did not advance out of her pool, with Britain's Gladys Davis taking all the glory by winning silver.
But the Brixton-born athlete was writing her name into history in other ways.
Skilled with both sword and pen, the foil fighter wrote extensively on the sport during her life, with her 1913 column in the 'Gentlewoman' publication heralded for speaking out against the gender stereotypes that fencing exuded.
"To those women and girls in search of some sport either for health or pleasure, fencing can be strongly recommended," she wrote.
"It brings into play every muscle of the body, it acts as a tonic to the brain and does not tend to mannish attitudes which, alas!, are the results of so many sports taken up by young girls nowadays.
"It is one if the most manly of sports, and yet the woman fencer can retain all her womanliness and grace, which is another mark in favour of fencing for women and girls."
Her article went on to inspire several of the women she would then share a team with at Paris 1924 - the woman who started it all.
Walker won her first national foil title the same year those words were published and retained it in 1914, beating her sister Charlotte in the final bout to clinch the crown.
But in the peak of her career, war struck Europe and the two sisters put their fighting attitude to use as cooks for the French Red Cross, returning to the sport following World War One.
By the time the 1924 Games came around, Walker was 48 years old and her foil skills were arguably beginning to wane, winning just one out of her five bouts in Paris, but nevertheless part of an historic first Olympic appearance for the sport she had loved since childhood.
Walker's work both on the piste and with her pen helped challenge the perceptions of fencing in a time that saw the liberties of women beginning to change.
Vera Tanner
Paris 1924 - Swimming, women's 4x100m freestyle (SILVER)
Amsterdam 1928 - Swimming, women's 4x100m freestyle (SILVER)
Vera Tanner's story extends far beyond the swimming pool.
The Eastbourne-based swimmer made her Olympic bow in Paris, part of the British 4x100m freestyle team who won silver behind the USA in a time of five minutes and 17 seconds.
Four years later Tanner repeated the feat and added a second Olympic silver to her CV, in a time that was 15 seconds faster.
Just one year after losing in Paris, the Brit was part of Gertrude Ederle's (USA gold medallist from 1924) first attempt at swimming the English Channel in 1925.
Ederle was unsuccessful in that attempt but the historic first is still embedded in swimming lore - with Tanner on the boat for support.
In fact, Tanner's love for teaching and swimming extended to her day job too, eventually settling down as a teacher in Grahamstown, South Africa after touring the country with the GB ladies team in 1929.
Tanner retired from competitive swimming in 1934 and in the late 1930s, the two-time Olympic medallist moved again to work in the Hong Kong Education Department, but that all soon changed as war broke out in 1939 and she enrolled as a nurse in the Auxiliary Nursing Service.
Our hero's story takes a turn from here. Working in the ANS, Tanner consequently missed the compulsory evacuation of women and children from Hong Kong in July 1940 and became a Japanese prisoner-of-war, interned at Stanley Internment Camp.
Scanning the list of internees at the Camp shows that Tanner was allocated Camp No. 2223 and her billet was Block 10 room T5, sharing a room with Miss Elma Kelly, an Australian journalist and Mrs Maud Minhinnick, the wife of a Naval Officer.
But even as a prisoner-of-war, her love for swimming and teaching never faded.
The Team GB athlete took to the water at Tweed Bay Beach in Hong Kong as both a lifeguard and to give swimming lessons to the other internees when they were allowed to during the summer months.
And in true Tanner fashion, when Hong Kong was liberated in 1945, a Dundee Evening Post article credits the Brit with one final swimming story that is nothing but inspirational:
"When rescue came in the shape of an allied minesweeper, she was so overjoyed that she swam a mile and a half out to it.
"Thin and half-starved as she was, she made the journey in 30 minutes."
Kitty McKane
Antwerp 1920 - Tennis, doubles (GOLD)
Antwerp 1920 - Tennis, mixed doubles (SILVER)
Antwerp 1920 - Tennis, singles (BRONZE)
Paris 1924 - Tennis, doubles (SILVER)
Paris 1924 - Tennis, singles (BRONZE)
Only four British women have won five or more medals at the Olympics.
The most recognisable of those names are Dame Katherine Grainger, Dame Laura Kenny and Charlotte Dujardin.
But the fourth is one Kathleen (Kitty) McKane Godfree.
The biggest tennis star of the early 1920s, McKane acquired a full set of medals at the 1920 Antwerp Games with bronze in the singles, silver in the mixed doubles and gold in the women's doubles.
Her bronze medal in the singles was won in unique circumstances, conceding a walkover in her semi-final so she could be at her best and rest for her doubles final with Winifred McNair.
The tactics worked, winning gold and still picking up singles bronze after beating Sigrid Fick of Sweden in the medal match.
Then four years later in Paris, McKane went on to win a further two medals to take her total to five, making her the most decorated British female Olympian until Grainger stepped into the boat.
It was also the most Olympic medals ever won by a tennis player until a certain Serena Williams emerged onto the scene.
In fact, McKane's story is linked with Williams in more ways than one. In 1922, McKane and her sister Margaret were the only sisters to contest a Wimbledon doubles final until Serena and Venus in 2000.
The McKane's went on to lose that final but the Olympic champion was crowned a two-time Wimbledon singles and mixed doubles champion in 1924 and 1926.
In January 1926, McKane also married Leslie Godfree and later that year they achieved the ultimate familial success by becoming the only husband and wife pairing ever to win the mixed doubles at Wimbledon.
But it was not just tennis that she excelled in. As a nine-year-old she cycled 600 miles from London to Berlin on a family 'outing' and the following year she was awarded a bronze medal from the National Skating Association.
Add that to three US Open victories, four French Open finals and eight All England Badminton titles and McKane was undoubtedly the queen of the court.
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