Female Olympians Hit the Fashion Runway in Paris to Celebrate Hard-won Gender Parity

Jocelyn Noveck READ TIME: 11 MIN.

Natalie Cook, an Australian beach volleyball player who competed in five Olympics, had a lot of fun, making a supermodel hair-flicking gesture as she neared photographers.

"I'm a first-timer," she said of her catwalk experience. "And I don't think I'll give up my athletic career."


by Jocelyn Noveck

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