The IOC set a goal of a 50-50 split among the more than 11,000 men and women, including backups, registered to compete from July 26 to Aug. 11. However, the...
FILE - Faith Kipyegon, of Kenya leads 1500m Women Final, during the Kenya track and field Paris 2024 Olympics trials, at the Nyayo National Stadium Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, June 15, 2024. GENEVA — The founder of the modern Olympics and former International Olympic Committee president, Pierre de Coubertin, once said women competing in the Games would be “impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.
“There is nothing more equal than a male and female competing as one team on the same field of play toward the same sports performance,” said Kit McConnell, the IOC’s sports director. The registered entries to women’s events in Paris include two athletes who identify as nonbinary and transgender.
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