Egypt’s women’s beach volleyball team last week condemned France’s move to ban its players from wearing the hijab after a match at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Marwa Abdelhadi and Doaa Elghobasy, who will represent Egypt at the 2024 Paris Olympics, wore hijabs, black leggings and long-sleeved T-shirts during a women’s beach volleyball match against Spain. Members of the Spanish team wore bikinis during the match on August 1.
“I want to play in a hijab, but she wants to play in a bikini.” Elghobasi told Expressen. Last week he said: “If you want to be naked, if you want to wear a hijab, that’s OK. Just be respectful of all different cultures and religions.”
“I don’t tell you to wear a hijab and you don’t tell me to wear a bikini. No one can tell me how to dress. This is a free country and everyone should have the right to do what they want,” she told Expressen newspaper.
Ergobashi Making history in 2016 At the Rio Olympics, she became the first athlete to play volleyball in an Olympic game while wearing a hijab.
If Elghobassi and Abdelhadi had played for France this year, they would not have been allowed to wear hijabs due to French rules that prohibit female Muslim athletes from wearing sports hijabs or headscarves during the Olympics. The hijab ban applies to athletes at all levels of French sports, including non-Olympic amateur and youth levels, the French Sports Federation said. To Amnesty International.
In January 2022, the French Senate passed a bill banning the wearing of the hijab at sporting events and other events. “Ostensibly religious symbolsCNN reported in September last year that it had been confirmed that the ban would also apply to French athletes taking part in the Paris Olympics.
Days before the Olympics, French Olympic sprinter S’Nkamba Shira said she would not be allowed to take part in the opening ceremony because she wears a hijab.
“I’ve been selected to host the Olympics in my country but I can’t take part in the opening ceremony because I wear a headscarf,” Shira wrote on Instagram. According to the Associated Press.
