Saudis to let woman compete in Olympics

01.12.2011                      05.Kislev. 5772

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Saudis to let woman compete in Olympics

Kingdom hopes one female athlete will assuage demands for gender equality.

Saudi Arabia has agreed to let one female athlete join their all-male delegation to the 2012 Olympics in a bid to block threats to bar them from the games if they didn’t let women participate.
The move came after a warning last year by Anita DeFrantz , who heads the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Women and Sports Commission, that any country that didn’t allow female athletes to compete would be barred from the global competition….