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08-05-2016, 01:18 AM
The long journey of America's first Olympian to compete in a hijab
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Ibtihaj Muhammad was a college fencer at Duke University in 2004, the year her sport — women's saber — became an Olympic event at the Games in Athens, Greece.*
She was more than a decade away from becoming the first American Olympian to compete wearing the hijab, a head scarf worn by many Muslim women, training for her college squad at an age when the best college-age fencers were already practicing for the Games.*
SEE ALSO: Olympic athlete tweets difficulty registering for SXSW while wearing a hijab (http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/sxsw-hijab/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Muhammad had been an athletic child, playing a range of sports such as tennis, volleyball and softball, but she was often teased and harassed for wearing the hijab (http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/will-americas-olympic-flag-bearer-be-wearing-a-hijab?mbid=social_twitter). She only started fencing at the age of 13 (http://www.teamusa.org/News/2016/February/02/Fencer-Ibtihaj-Muhammad-Qualifies-For-Olympics-Will-Become-First-US-Athlete-To-Compete-In-A-Hijab), as it was a sport that allowed her to conceal her hijab with the fencing helmet. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/ibtihaj-muhammad-muslim-fencer-hijab-olympics-america/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Ibtihaj Muhammad was a college fencer at Duke University in 2004, the year her sport — women's saber — became an Olympic event at the Games in Athens, Greece.*
She was more than a decade away from becoming the first American Olympian to compete wearing the hijab, a head scarf worn by many Muslim women, training for her college squad at an age when the best college-age fencers were already practicing for the Games.*
SEE ALSO: Olympic athlete tweets difficulty registering for SXSW while wearing a hijab (http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/sxsw-hijab/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Muhammad had been an athletic child, playing a range of sports such as tennis, volleyball and softball, but she was often teased and harassed for wearing the hijab (http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/will-americas-olympic-flag-bearer-be-wearing-a-hijab?mbid=social_twitter). She only started fencing at the age of 13 (http://www.teamusa.org/News/2016/February/02/Fencer-Ibtihaj-Muhammad-Qualifies-For-Olympics-Will-Become-First-US-Athlete-To-Compete-In-A-Hijab), as it was a sport that allowed her to conceal her hijab with the fencing helmet. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/ibtihaj-muhammad-muslim-fencer-hijab-olympics-america/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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