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Saudis to send 2 women to Games

By Stephen Wilson in London Associated Press | China Daily | Updated: 2012-07-14 08:02

Saudis to send 2 women to Games

Members of a women's soccer team train in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 21. Women are not allowed into stadiums and cannot rent athletic venues in Saudi Arabia. Hassan Ammar / Associated Press File Photo

Competitors in judo, track and field chosen

Every country competing at the London Games will include female athletes for the first time in Olympic history after Saudi Arabia agreed on Thursday to send two women to compete in judo and track and field.

The move by the Muslim kingdom to break with its practice of fielding male-only teams followed earlier decisions by Qatar and Brunei to send women athletes to the Olympics for the first time.

"With Saudi Arabian female athletes now joining their fellow female competitors from Qatar and Brunei, it means that by London 2012, every national Olympic committee will have sent women to the Olympic Games," IOC President Jacques Rogge said.

Saudi Arabia had been under intense pressure from the International Olympic Committee and human rights groups to include women athletes. Thursday's announcement followed months of IOC negotiations with the Saudis to bring women to London.

The two female Saudi competitors are Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani in judo and 800-meter runner Sarah Attar.

"A big inspiration for participating in the Olympic Games is being one of the first women for Saudi Arabia to be going," the 17-year-old Attar said in an IOC video from her US training base in San Diego. "It's such a huge honor and I hope that it can really make some big strides for women over there to get more involved in sport."

Attar, who has spent most of her life outside of Saudi Arabia, said she hopes her inclusion will encourage women in the conservative kingdom that does not even allow women to drive to participate in sports.

"To any woman who wants to participate, I say 'go for it', and don't let anybody hold you back," Attar said in the video after running a lap on the track wearing pants and a headscarf.

"We all have potential to get out there and get moving," she said, speaking in an American accent.

There are no written laws that prohibit women from participating in sports, but women are not allowed into stadiums and they cannot rent athletic venues. There is no physical education for girls in public schools, and no women-only hours in swimming pools.

Women cannot register for sports clubs, league competitions and other female-only tournaments with the government. They are banned from entering all-male national trials, which makes it impossible for them to qualify for international competitions, including the Olympics.

Attar and Shahrkhani were entered for the London Games by the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee by Monday's deadline.

Neither qualified to compete in the Olympics, but received special invitations from the IOC "based on the quality of the athletes", Rogge said.

"We've looked at the ones who are the closest to qualifying standards and these were these two athletes," he said. "That's always the bottom line in all these invitations."

Rogge said the IOC will continue to support female Saudi athletes with scholarships and other programs.

"This is not new, we have done it in the past," he said. "We'll now do it with more athletes. That's the best way to improve the skills."

About 10,500 athletes are expected to compete in London, representing more than 200 national Olympic committees.

"The IOC has been working very closely with the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee and I am pleased to see that our continued dialogue has come to fruition," Rogge said. "The IOC has been striving to ensure a greater gender balance at the Olympic Games, and today's news can be seen as an encouraging evolution."

The IOC said Brunei has entered one woman in track and field, while Qatar has entered four female athletes.

The goal of gender equity is enshrined in the IOC's charter, but has proved difficult to achieve.

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, 26 national teams had no women. The figure dropped to three in Beijing four years ago.

In Beijing, women represented 42 percent of the athletes, and the figure is expected to increase in London. Women's boxing is included on the Olympic program in London for the first time.

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