Arab News reports that the first women’s university sports center will be opening at the Princess Noura University in Riyadh. Conservative Saudi society frowns deeply at women’s taking part in athletics. For reasons ranging from fear of immodesty in dress to potential damage to reproduction, Saudi society has a lot of strange ideas about women and exercise. Now, as the government has taken this step, it needs to take the next: sports in girls’ high schools.

Women’s varsity to get sports center

JEDDAH: A sports and recreation center for women will be established at Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh. Work on the project has already started and will be completed within two years.

“The center will be first of its kind established by the government for women in the Kingdom,” Al-Riyadh daily reported, adding that it would follow Saudi customs and traditions.
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