Paris 2024 Olympics: The Olympic Games have indeed come a long way. With four days to go for the official opening ceremony of the Summer Games, the Paris 2024 Olympics are set to commence in the same city where women athletes made their debut way back in 1900. 124 years later, this looks set to be the most gender equal Olympic-games ever.
Notably, the original idea proposed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reckoned that there should ideally be a 50-50 split in terms of male and the female athletes participating in the Paris 2024 Olympics. The ratio was targetted for over 11,000 men and women including the backups who have been registered to compete at the event which concludes on August 11.
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28 Of 32 Sport Featuring In Paris 2024 Olympics Are Fully Gender Neutral
As per an official statement by IOC, quoted by news agency Associated Press (AP), 28 of the 32 sport set to feature in the Paris 2024 Olympics are fully gender neutral. Rhythmic gymnastics is open for women only but men have the provision of competing in artistic swimming.
"There is nothing more equal than a male and female competing as one team on the same field of play towards the same sports performance," the IOC’s sports director, Kit McConnell, was quoted as saying in the same IOC report.
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As per the official Paris Olympics IOC database quoted in the AP report, there are 11,215 athletes including the backups who have registered to compete in the quadrennial event: 5,712 in men's events and 5,303 in women's events, implying a 51:49 ratio among the participating men and women athletes.