The League of Women’s International Law has urged the Organizing Committee of Paris 2024 Olympics to ensure that universal fundamental principles of the Olympics Charter are followed in letter and spirit at the upcoming Olympics.
Annie Sugier, President of the League of Women’s International Law reiterated her point about upholding the ideals of political neutrality in Olympics after the organizing committee unveiled the logo for 2024 Olympics and Paralympics at Paris–the host city.
“The logo for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, was unveiled in host city Paris… The circular logo framed with gold depicts the Olymic flame and the outline of Marianne, the personification of the French Republic. It would be a misleading symbol if the Organizing Committee president failed to take the appropriate measures to ensure that universal fundamental ethical principles of the Olympic Charter is respected by all states and participants” said the Press Statement by League of Women’s International Law.
The press statement further added that the League of Women’s International Law had sent an OPEN LETTER (on June 23rd), to the Organizing Committee reminding Mr. Tony Estanguet “to draw the IOC President’s attention to the incompatibility of sexual apartheid – as imposed by Iran and Saudi Arabia — with the Olympic Charter underlining that had not the IOC inscribed in its 2020 agenda the promotion of “gender equality” and “mixed gender teams events” as a priority, as did the Paris Olympic Committee?
Tony Estanguet became President of the Organising Committee after Paris was awarded the 2024 Games at Lima in 2017.
On July 19th, Tony Estanguet admitted that the situation was “unsatisfactory”. Nevertheless he distorted the meaning of the principle of political neutrality in the Olympic Charter, dismissing any interfering with “non-sporting issues”.
The organizers of Paris 2024 proclaimed that they would promote sex equality and mix, wanting the legacy of the Olympic Games to be the enforcement of the universal fundamental ethical principles, as set by the Olympic Charter.
Yet, two countries, Iran and Saudi Arabia, still contravene both the spirit and the letter of Olympic Charter as they subject the participation of women in international competitions to considerations that are in total contradiction to the terms of the Olympic Charter. Only those disciplines deemed “Koranic” are accessible to them (women from Iran and Saudi Arabia), on the double condition that they be covered from head to foot and that they participate solely in women only events. Such archaic measures are among other humiliating ways sexual apartheid is imposed on their peoples by those political regimes.