The 2026 Winter Olympics at Milano Cortina were the most gender-balanced games in history, with a record number of female athletes. But, the official numbers from the games hint that the number of women photographing the games is also gradually increasing.
According to the International Olympic Committee numbers released this week, of the 691 accredited press photographers, 18 percent were women. While that number lags far behind the record-setting 44.7 percent of female athletes, the number is an uptick from the 15 percent of female photographers at the 2024 Paris games and the 13 percent at the 2022 Beijing games.
