Cover Image: Olympic rings in the Place du Trocadéro in Paris
Anne Lea, photographer
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Tomorrow the world celebrates International Women's Day 2024.

On International Women's Day 2023, the Olympic Committee announced that the 2024 Summer Olympic games would achieve gender parity in terms of the number of participating athletes.

The City of Paris is undertaking the renaming of multiple sports facilities after women, and the Olympic Committee has chosen to represent a woman in the logo for the upcoming games.

Several Black women will represent France at the games this summer.

Among them are:

Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos - gymnastics (she is training with Simone Biles in Houston)

Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos
Photographer: Two Wings
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Clarisse Agbegnenou - judo

Clarisse Agbegnenou
Photographer: Awkward Chester
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Renelle Lamotte - track (800m)

Renelle Lamotte
Photographer: АлексИзз
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Cyréna Samba-Mayeta - track (100m hurdles)

Cyréna Samba-Mayeta
Photographer: Sandro Halank
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Yolaine Yengo - rugby

Yolaine Yengo
Image from Yengo's X page
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Entrée to Black Paris published an article about Black French sportswomen on the Olympic judo team in 2016:

We Wear Our History in Our Darkness - The Black Woman's Body in France, Past and Present

and an article about Black women in rugby in 2017:

Black Women in French Rugby

ETBP is looking forward to learning the results of the 2024 Olympic games and wishes all the competing athletes well!