Eniola Aluko appears on a stage during a runway show featuring female athletes at Paris' Opera Garnier to celebrate an equal number of male and female athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Photo: Reuters
It may be too early to call these Paris Olympics the Fashion Olympics. But, in the city widely considered the capital of fashion, the word "fashion” has surely been mentioned so far more by now than in any other Olympics.
And so it made sense to Angela Ruggiero, a four-time US Olympic medalist in ice hockey, that if she was going to launch a celebration of gender parity in these Games, it should be with a fashion show.
