The Egyptian girls’s seaside volleyball crew got here up in opposition to Spain in a seaside volleyball match on the Paris Olympics, with their apparel selections turning into an even bigger speaking level on social media than their performances within the recreation. The match was scheduled as a part of the final spherical of pool play, with the outcome key to figuring out the quarterfinal match-ups for the Olympic volleyball event. As footage of the match have been shared on social media, the distinction within the attires of the 2 groups turned an enormous speaking level, triggering debates over sportswear selections in seaside volleyball.
Whereas Spain have been terrific with their gameplay within the Paris Olympics, social media customers discovered much more to speak about than the performances of their star duo Liliana Fernandez and Paula Soria Gutierrez.
As for the outcome, Spain defeated Egypt on Thursday in straight units.
Whereas the Spanish gamers wore bikinis, Egyptian seaside volleyball gamers wore hijabs, lengthy black-sleeved shirts, and black ankle-length leggings in a girls’s seaside volleyball. If the Egyptian gamers have been representing France, they’d not have been allowed to put on hijabs.
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Egypt vs Spain’s Girls’s Seaside Volleyball! pic.twitter.com/JAB2WgGnUO
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Egypt v. Spain girls’s seaside volleyball match on the #Olympics
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Earlier, the members of Egypt’s seaside volleyball crew spoke in opposition to France’s hijab ban for athletes competing in Paris Olympics.
“I wish to play in my hijab, she desires to play in a bikini,” Expressen reported Egypt’s Doaa Elghobashy as saying. “All the pieces is OK, if you wish to be bare or put on a hijab. Simply respect all completely different cultures and religions.”
“I do not let you know to put on a hijab and you do not inform me to put on a bikini. Nobody can inform me the best way to costume. It is a free nation, everybody needs to be allowed to do what they need,” she mentioned.
Amnesty Worldwide and 10 different teams had written to the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) in June asking for the ban to be overturned, saying that such a ruling causes Muslim athletes to be ‘discriminated in opposition to’.
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