The International Olympic Committee is requesting that each national committee prioritize sending at least one male and one female athlete to the Paris Olympics as part of its gender equality movement, a source familiar with the matter told Kyodo News recently.The IOC is also calling for joint male and female flagbearers and for 30 percent of coaching staffs to be female, a source said, as Paris is set to see the same number of athletes from each gender for the first time in the games' history.According to the IOC, the delegations from Brunei, Suriname, the United Arab Emirates, and Vanuatu…READ FULL ARTICLE
