<P> Notably, cultural representations of a pronounced female physicality were not limited to sport in Ancient Greece and can also be found in representations of a group of warrioresses known as the Amazons . </P> <P> During the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, women played in professional Cuju teams . </P> <P> The first Olympic games in the modern era, which were in 1896 were not open to women, but since then the number of women who have participated in the Olympic games have increased dramatically . </P> <P> The educational committees of the French Revolution (1789) included intellectual, moral, and physical education for both girls and boys . With the victory of Napoleon less than twenty years later, physical education was reduced to military preparedness for boys and men . In Germany, the physical education of GutsMuths (1793) included girl's education . This included the measurement of performances of girls . This led to women's sport being more actively pursued in Germany than in most other countries . When the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale was formed as an all women's international organization it had a German male vice-president in addition to German international success in elite sports . </P>

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