28th September 2014 - Qatar women’s basketball team pull out of Asian Games over hijab ban
20th September 2014 - Women’s right to attend sports events at centre of Iran’s culture wars
7th July 2014 - Saudi Arabia announces plans to build 11 stadia
7th April 2012 - Saudi women could miss London Olympics
28th June 2010 - Iran girls barred from Singapore Youth Olympics for wearing hijab
15th June 2010 - Saudi cleric says sport is ‘corrupting’ women
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