Olympic organizers have defended their assertion that Paris 2024 is the first Games with full gender parity, despite quoting figures themselves which prove it is not equal. Marie Sallois, the International Olympic Committee’s director of corporate & sustainable development, told a daily news conference on Sunday: “Paris 2024 will be the first Olympic Games with full gender parity on the field of play. “Gender equality has been mainstreamed throughout everything and at the heart of the Olympic Games.” It is true that more than half of medal events are now open to women, although the breakdown i…