Paris 2024 first ever Olympics with gender parity - Bach - video Dailymotion

IOC President Thomas Bach declared the 2024 Olympic Games will be the first with complete gender parity ever

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00:00 The Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be the first ever Olympic Games with gender parity.

00:09 The IOC has allocated exactly the same number of quota to female and male athletes.

00:18 I think we have taken the leadership position by showing a clear pathway

00:25 for the international federations according to their special conditions and requirements

00:34 to come to the right solution.

00:38 I think it's obvious to everybody that you cannot compare, let's say, a dressage rider

00:48 with a hammer thrower in the women's category and even in athletics itself,

00:56 among the different disciplines, they are making this difference and for good reasons.

01:04 So we have made it clear with our framework to all these international federations

01:12 that they have to follow the science, that they have to have consultations

01:21 with all the stakeholders in this question,

01:26 means female athletes, means female transgender athletes, means human rights,

01:35 means legal experts, means scientific experts.

01:40 and then come to the right conclusion.