Celebrating Olympic gender equality and the trailblazing Olympi-mums
There are so many things that made Paris 2024 Olympics very special. One of these was achieving ‘full gender parity on the field of play’ which the International Olympic Committee defines as having set a quota to distribute competition spots equally to female and male athletes, with a goal to have female athlete participation at 50%. That’s a long way from the first time women competed in the modern Games in 1900, when they made up just 2% of athletes. …