The DeFrantz credo: 'Yes, you can!'

Date of Release: March 17, 2009 (Special to ESPN.com)
by Richard Lapchick
I have known and been friends with Anita DeFrantz for three decades, since she was a vice president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Summer Games. She is one of sports’ true pioneers, both for her marvelous athletic career and for her position as perhaps the most powerful woman in international sport through her role in the International Olympic Committee. Her influence is written all over the Olympics. More...