Fact-check: Will the Paris Olympics really be the first gender-equal Games?
With less than four months before the much-anticipated event, the International Olympic Committee emphasises the event will be the first gender-equal one in history. One of the hashtags used in the promotional material for the 2024 Paris Summer Games is #GenderEqualOlympics. These upcoming Olympic Games will indeed have a 50 per cent participation rate between men and women. However, in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, 48.8 per cent of participants were women – very close to achieving full parity. But in certain disciplines, the parity is not respected. Wrestling, for example, is a sport where only me...