Kemaren waktu parade pembukaan, kontingen Bahrain menampilkan Pelari Putri Tercepat di Asia Ruqaya Al-Ghasara, sebagai pembawa bendera. Dia tampil berbusana tradisional, jilbab dan jubah panjang, dengan senyum menawan. Lihat lagi video kemenangannya dengan busana tertutup dari kepala hingga ujung kaki. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6347673650280881388
Full Body Outfit seperti ini sekarang lagi ngetrend seperti di cabang renang. Maklum sangat mengurangi gesekan sehingga rekor makin bertumbangan. Kontras dengan voli pantai (lagi nonton :-) malah harus pakai bikini. Tentu saja, partisipasi Ruqaya bukan tanpa masalah: 1) memperlihatkan bentuk tubuh 2) tampil di muka umum yang bukan mahram, khawatir menimbulkan fitnah. Solusinya? Larang saja kaum konservatif untuk nonton acara olimpiade, dan biarkan Ruqaya berlari mengejar cita-citanya. salam, DWS On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 2:39 AM, L.Meilany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kebanyakan atlit putri indonesia non muslim. > Kalopun muslim mereka buka jilbabnya waktu bertanding, seperti atlit pencak > silat. > > Salam, > l.meilany > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dwi W. Soegardi > To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:51 PM > Subject: [keluarga-sejahtera] Muslim Sportswomen Gain Standing in Beijing > > > Penulis artikel ini, jurnalis asal Jordan, rupanya "luput" mengamati > partisipasi olahragawati Indonesia. Maklum, dalam bidang olahraga, > pencapaian -minimal partisipasi- Indonesia jauh melebihi negara-negara > muslim lainnya dalam mengikutsertakan atlet putri, barangkali semenjak > kita mengirim kontingen ke Olimpiade. Hanya sebaris tentang Susi > Susanti di Olimpiade Barcelona, walaupun tim panahan putri kita sudah > dapat medali di Olimpiade Seoul. > > http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3696 > > The Beijing Olympics starting Friday will showcase the varying degrees > to which Muslim countries are warming up to women's sports, Aline > Bannayan reports today. The United Arab Emirates and Oman are sending > women for the first time. > > SPORTS > > Muslim Sportswomen Gain Standing in Beijing > > By Aline Bannayan - WeNews correspondent > > AMMAN, Jordan (WOMENSENEWS)--Even before the Beijing Summer Olympics > begin on Friday, Habiba Hinai is tasting victory. > > For the first time her country is sending a female Olympian to the > games. Buthaina Yaqoubi, 16, will compete in the 100-meter dash and > either the long jump or the triple jump. > > Hinai, one of three women to represent Oman by bearing the Olympic > torch during the relay earlier this year, is vice-chair of Oman's > Volleyball Association, the highest position for any woman in the > country's sports scene. > > For 18 years she has advocated for the advancement of women's > athletics in her country, seeing it expand from an activity only > available in schools in 1993 to the formation of national women's > volleyball, tennis and table tennis teams in 2004. > > Now that her country is sending female competitors to the games, Hinai > says she can start looking forward to the day when more Muslim women > join the International Olympic Committee and Olympic Asian Committee. > "That's the only way to develop sports in the Muslim world." > > The 135-member International Olympic Committee, based in Lausanne, > Switzerland, has 15 female members. Two are former Olympians from Arab > Muslim countries: Morocco's 1984 track-and-field 400-meter star Nawal > El Moutawakel, the first Arab woman to earn a gold medal, and Egyptian > swimmer Rania Elwani, who competed from 1992 through 2000. > > Nine men from Arab and Muslim countries also serve on the committee, > which organizes the games and represents its 205 national members. > > Warming Rates Vary > > Muslim countries are warming up to women's Olympics by varying degrees. > > North African nations dominate in Muslim women's representation. Among > them, Tunisia is a particular standout, with women competing in track > and field, canoeing, fencing, judo, table tennis, tennis, tae kwon do > and wrestling. > > The 11 women in Morocco's 38-member delegation include 30-year-old > Olympic 800-meter track champion Hasna Ben Hassi. The country's many > promising young competitors include 24-year-old Alaoui Selsouli, a > potential gold medalist in the women's 5,000-meter event, who faces > fierce Ethiopian competition. The country is also sending Khadija > Abbouda, the Olympics' first Moroccan female archer. > > Algeria's female volleyball players, All Africa Games champions, will > compete in that sport for the first time. "It's extraordinary. We can > meet the world's best teams. And we're setting an example for women's > sport in Algeria," said team captain Marimal Madani. Algerian women > will also compete in judo and athletics, where Nahida Touhami will > compete in the 1500-meter event. > > Jordan's seven-member delegation includes four women. Among them > Nadine Dawani, a tae kwon do competitor, and Zeina Sha'ban, a table > tennis champion, have the honor of carrying their nation's flag in the > Aug. 8 opening ceremony. > > First Women From Oman and UAE > > Among the socially conservative Gulf countries, the United Arab > Emirates joins Oman in sending its first women to the games. Sheikha > Maitha Mohammad Rashed Al-Maktoum, the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad, > will compete in tae kwon do. Her cousin and another member of the > ruling family, Sheikha Latifa Bint Ahmad Al-Maktoum, will take part in > equestrian show jumping. > > - Muslim Women in Olympic History > > 1964: Iran sent its first female athlete to Olympics. > > 1984: Morocco's Nawal El Moutawakel became the first Arab woman to win > a gold medal when she came in first in the women's 400 meters at the > Los Angeles Games. She is now minister of sports. > > 1992: Hassiba Boulmerka of Algeria won a gold medal in 1,500-meter > race. She often trained in Europe after being castigated in her own > country for competing in a vest and shorts. That same year Susi > Susanti became the first Olympic athlete to win a gold medal in > badminton for Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. > > 2000: Jordan's Princess Haya, the sister of King Abdullah, became the > first female Arab flag-bearer at an Olympic Games, the first and only > Arab woman to compete in equestrian events and the first member of an > Arab royal family to compete in the Olympics. In 2006, she became the > first Arab woman to lead an international sports federation when she > was elected president of the International Equestrian Federation. > > 2004: Women from Iran won medals in pistol shooting. That year > Afghanistan--which had ended Taliban rule only three years > earlier--sent two female athletes to compete; one in track and field > and one in judo. Bahrain sent Ruqaya Al-Ghasra as their first-ever > female competitor. - > > Iran, Pakistan and Bahrain, which usually have predominantly male > delegations, are sending a limited number of women. > > Iran's 53 athletes include three women, who will compete in rowing, > archery and tae kwon do. > > Two women are among Pakistan's 21 athletes. They are 22-year-old Sadaf > Siddiqui running the 100-meter dash and 18-year-old swimmer Kiran > Khan. Pakistan first sent female athletes to the games in 1996. > > Bahrain is also sending two women, including Ruqaya Al-Ghasra, 24, who > won the 200-meter event at the 2006 Doha Asian Games and the 100-meter > dash at the 11th Pan-Arab Games in 2007. She has qualified for both > the women's 100-meter and 200-meter races in Beijing. Her > countrywoman, Maryam Yusuf Jamal, will compete in the 800-meter. > > Iraq has one female sprinter, Dana Hussein, 21, among its four qualifiers. > > Somalia's Samiyo Yusuf will run in the 400-meter and 800-meter events > as the only female athlete representing the war-torn nation. > > Brunei and Saudi Arabia will not be sending any women. Both countries > bar women's sports for "cultural and religious reasons" and do not > allow women to participate in the Olympics. > > Qatar and Kuwait will also not be sending any women to Beijing. Both > countries allow women's sports, but are opting to send male athletes > with what they consider better competitive chances. > > Post-Barcelona Push > > Women's participation in the Olympics has been a particularly > sensitive subject since 1992. > > That year, 35 countries--half of them Muslim--sent no female athletes > to the Barcelona Games. > > To lower those numbers two French advocates, Annie Sugier and Linda > Weil-Curiel, founded a group called Atlanta Plus to work on requiring > countries to include women in their Olympic delegations. > > Weil-Curiel, a lawyer, says all-male delegations contravene the > Olympic charter's prohibition against all forms of discrimination. She > has been lobbying the International Olympic Committee for years to > impose sanctions on nations that bar women from competing. > > Based in Paris, her organization now calls itself > Atlanta-Sydney-Athens Plus and can happily point to the shrinking > supply of all-male delegations. > > Thirty-five all-male Olympic teams competed in Barcelona in 1992 > compared to 26 in Atlanta in 1996, 10 in Sydney in 2000 and five in > Athens 2004. There are at least four all-male delegations sent to > Beijing, but a tally is not yet available. > > Women came closer to parity during 2004 when they competed in 135 > events and represented 44 percent of all participants. > > Sports officials in Arab countries contend that women's limited > participation is not restricted to their countries and point to the > limited number of women in the International Olympic Committee's > decision-making bodies. > > In March 2008, during the fourth International Olympic Committee > conference on women and sports, held in Jordan, 600 participants > endorsed the Dead Sea Plan of Action. It calls for gender equality in > national teams, their leadership and technicians, and also encourages > female sports reporters to actively cover the events. Attendees > included the world's top sporting officials, including International > Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, many Olympic medalists and > King Abdullah and Queen Rania of Jordan. > > Women were barred from competing in the first modern games in 1896 but > four years later they were permitted to participate in the "ladylike" > sports of tennis, golf and croquet. > > In Beijing, female athletes will compete in nearly every Olympic > sport, including wrestling, which was opened to women for the first > time at the Athens Games. The Japanese are expected to be the dominant > force with the Americans, Bulgarians and Chinese expected to pose a > threat in their quest for Olympic gold. > > Aline Bannayan is a reporter and editor based in Amman, Jordan. A > former national basketball team player, she has covered sports for the > Jordan Times as well as the AP in Amman since 1991. > > Women's eNews welcomes your comments. 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