PARIS - Paris 2024 Olympics organisers defended a 30 per cent salary uplift for their communications director on March 27, saying the raise was correcting an unfair gender gap in her pay.

In an investigation to be aired on Thursday, French TV channel France 2 reveals that the annual salary of Anne Descamps, the Paris 2024 communications director, went up 45,000 euros (S$65,654) to 195,000 euros in 2023.