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By Amelia HILL Pi Hongyan of France wears a "skirt jersey" during the Sudirman Cup world mixed badminton team championship in Qin...
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How do conservative countries handle scantily clad Olympic athletes? By Kara Hadge Posted Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, at http://www.slate.com/... -
Muslim - Origin Olympians Invisible in the Spotlight by Samia Serageldin No, not the Egyptian silver medalist fencer Alaa AbdelKassem; not ...
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Ladies Figure Skating: Tugba Karademir (Turkey) Born in 1985in Turkey. Age 24. Tugba became the first figure skating athlete to repr...
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Photos and Piece, By Claudia WIENS Photo: Claudia Wiens The FIFA Women’s World Cup is recognized as the most important International co...
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Blog Owner & Author): Sertaç Sehlikoglu created MWIS blog in May 2008 and has been blogging since then. She is a research fellow in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her academic interests include leisure, sports, body, agency, subject formation and female normativity. Sehlikoglu is a women's rights activist - Contact her Via muslimwomeninsports(et)gmail.com
Shireen Ahmed (Author): Shireen Ahmed is a frontline worker in Social Services, writer and footballer living in Toronto. Her passions include advocacy, her amazing family, following Football Club Barcelona , coffee and her two cats. She writes about her experiences in football and sport in her blog “Tales of a Hijabi Footballer” at www.footybedsheets.tumblr.com. You can follow her at @_shireenahmed_
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