.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean King will definitely become the 1st personal women's athlete to be rewarded the Congressional Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania as well as Mikie Sherrill of New Jacket introduced Tuesday that their bipartisan laws had actually passed our home of Representatives and would certainly be sent out to Head of state Joe Biden for his signature.The costs to honor Master, the tennis Hallway of Famer and protestor, had actually currently passed all in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, stated in a declaration that King's "life time of proposal and effort changed the landscape for girls and also girls on the courthouse, in the class, and also the office." The expense was actually offered in September 2023 on the 50th wedding anniversary of King's triumph over Bobby Riggs in the "War of the Sexes," still the most-watched tennis suit of perpetuity. The medal, granted through Congress for prominent accomplishments and also contributions to community, has earlier been actually provided to sportsmens, including baseball players Jackie Robinson as well as Roberto Clemente and also golf players Jack Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and also Arnold Palmer.King had actually been rewarded the Governmental Medal of Freedom in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican, claims she has "faulty barricades, led uncharted paths, as well as encouraged countless folks to stand happily with nerve and principle in the defend what is right.".