CNN —Members of the Egyptian women’s beach volleyball team have spoken out against France’s hijab ban for its athletes after competing in an Olympic beach volleyball match wearing modest clothing.
Marwa Abdelhady and Doaa Elghobashy represented Egypt at the Paris Olympics, wearing hijabs, long black sleeved shirts and black ankle length leggings in a women’s beach volleyball match against Spain.
Speaking to CNN’s Swedish affiliate Expressen Thursday, Abdelhady said that she “doesn’t like” the hijab ban for French athletes.
“I want to play in my hijab, she wants to play in a bikini,” Expressen reported Elghobashy as saying.
In January 2022, the French senate voted to ban the wearing of the hijab and other “ostensible religious symbols” in sports competitions.
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Egypt, Rio De Janeiro, Bulgaria