Equestrian events aren’t the same as basketball or soccer, but they are athletics. So a team of Saudi women taking part in an international competition is a bit of a breakthrough, though not a major one. Still, every journey starts with a single step and many Saudi women are taking those first steps to show that they are equal to men. This Saudi Gazette article reports on next year’s GCC Women’s Games.

Saudi women to take part in GCC Games ’10
Hana Al-Alwani

DOHA – Saudi women are set to take part in next year’s second GCC Women’s Games in the United Arab Emirates in March 2010.

“We refused to hold the event without seeing the Saudi flag raised alongside the others, so we decided to include show jumping events to allow Saudi women to compete,” said Ahlam Al-Maane’, head of the Women’s Sports Committee and member of the GCC Executive Council for Women’s Sport.
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