The IOC says the Olympic Games has reached gender parity, but historic gender inequality still lingers ...Middle East

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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Three years before the Olympics last visited Paris in 1924, a small gathering of female athletes led by Alice Milliat staged their own Games as they were still largely excluded from the biggest sporting event in the world. Female athletes competing at the Games was simply not “in keeping” with how Pierre de Coubertin envisioned the event he revived in 1896, an event he saw as an “exaltation of male athleticism … with the applause of women as a reward,” as he wrote in 1912. Now, a century later in the French capital, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has distributed its quota places equally in the hope that an equal number of male and female athletes

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