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Saudi Arabia Won’t Send Female Athletes To The Olympics | The AP is reporting that a Saudi Arabian newspaper quoted Prince Nawaf, the head of the Saudi Olympic Committee, saying that “the kingdom opposes sending female athletes to the Olympics for the first time. But he left room for Saudi women to compete on their own outside the official delegation, a plan that may not satisfy demands by the International Olympic Committee.”
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