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PARIS - As organizers and fans celebrate the start of the first "gender-equal Games" this month in Paris, Paralympic athletes still face multiple barriers to achieving the feminist dream, experts say.The 2024 Olympics will mark a significant milestone when they kick off on July 26, with an equal number of spots allocated to female and male athletes for the first time after years of effort by the International Olympic Committee.
"It's kind of this self-reinforcing process that happens where women, I think, with disabilities have far less media coverage and access," the American said. "There's fewer women that are seeing the potential that they could reach."Craig Spence, the IPC's chief brand and communications officer, said there will be 1,860 female slots for the Paris Paralympics, a vast improvement from the 990 available at the 2000 Sydney Games but still unequal between men and women.
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