Video Essay: Gender equity but no right to playSportsDuration 1:29Paris 2024 is the first Olympic Games to reach gender parity with equal numbers of men and women athletes, but France has banned its own hijab-wearing women athletes in defence of secularism. CBC Sports' senior contributor Shireen Ahmed explores how excluding Muslim women from sport, because they choose to cover, is against the principles of freedom that the IOC claims to uphold.

Source: CBC News July 31, 2024 21:35 UTC