Olympic Games 2024: Friba Rezayee, first Afghan woman to participate in the Olympic Games, calls for the exclusion of Afghanistan

An explicit call. The judokas Friba Rezayeethe first Afghan woman to participate in the 2004 Olympic Games, urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to exclude Afghanistan from the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The treatment of women by the Taliban in the country is under discussion. She believes the country should be banned from the Olympics, so that Afghan women have the opportunity to compete safely on the refugee Olympic team. This team allows political refugee athletes to compete in this competition.

A “significant risk” according to Friba Rezayee

For Friba Rezayeewho now resides in Canada: “ Given the existence of tons and tons of evidence about the Taliban and their brutal treatment of women and children, they are very dangerous. Allowing them to participate in the Paris Olympics in 2024 presents a significant risk. “Rezayee said Reuters.

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Because since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in August 2021, women have increasingly faced restrictions on their rights. They no longer have access to education or even public administration. They will no longer be able to go to beauty salons, nor enter parks, gardens, gyms or even public toilets without being accompanied by a male relative.

In response to Friba Rezayee’s appeal, the IOC said it was working to reverse Afghanistan’s sporting restrictions on women and girls. But for them, isolating the Afghan sports community would be counterproductive.

The Afghan National Olympic Committee had already been suspended in 1999, which led to its exclusion from the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. But it was re-established after the fall of the Taliban in 2004, which allowed Friba Rezayee to participate in the competition the same year .

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