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August 7, 2008

A Whole Other Hurdle to Jump

by Alice Jones, Telegraph, UK - While the number of all-male teams banning women for "cultural and religious reasons" has decreased sharply, from 35 in Barcelona in 1992 to five in Athens in 2004, Muslim women from Arab countries are still under-represented at the Games.

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