Saudi Arabia Olympics: Islamic Kingdom To Allow Women Athletes To Compete In London (Huffington post)
RIYADH, June 25 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will enter women athletes in the
Olympics for the first time ever in London this summer, the Islamic kingdom’s
London embassy said on Sunday.
Human rights groups had called on the International Olympic Committee to bar
Saudi Arabia from competing in London, citing its failure ever to send a woman
athlete to a Games and its ban on sports in girls’ state schools.
Powerful Muslim clerics in the ultra-conservative state have repeatedly spoken
out against the participation of girls and women in sports.
In Saudi Arabia women hold a lower legal status to men, are banned from
driving and need a male guardian’s permission to work, travel or open a bank
account.
Under King Abdullah, however, the government has pushed for them to have
better education and work opportunities and allowed them to vote in future
municipal elections, the only public polls held in the kingdom.
“The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looking forward to its complete participation
in the London 2012 Olympic Games through the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee,
which will oversee the participation of women athletes who can qualify for the
games,” said a statement published on the …
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