Sports: Women in sport

• The first appearance made by women in the Olympics was in Paris 1900s.
• 22 women’s competed in tennis, sailing,croquet, Equestrain and golf.
• IOC- Congress in Paris’s 1914 a women’s medal have formally the same weight as men’s in the official men’s table.
• Netball was developed out of basketball and softball out of baseball due to concern on women’s physical strength and stamina. This discouraged females to join in fore phicially intense sport.

“Bicycling has done more to emaincipate women than enything else.” “I stand and rejoice every time I see a women ride on a wheel. It gives women a fell of freedom and self-reliance”.

Susan B. Anthony.

Susan B. Anthony is a women rights activist, she played important role in the women’s suffrage women which gained strength in 1840s.

The above image is of Edith cumming a golfer who on 25 August 1924 was the first women athlete to appear on the cover of the times magazine, which is said to be a major step in women althlete history.

Muslim women in sport:

It is said that Muslim women’s should be preserved with Their identity and coustom. During my previous research on type of hijabs elaborated that they wear it to cover them self form unretlaed men’s and to maintain moodesty. It is believed that women were not allowed in participating in. Sport that required short cloths and masculine power.

In countries such as India the mindset has changed and number of world class women as Sania Mirza for tennis have reached their destination to pursue their career in sport. This has also encouraged women to take a step forward in sport but as there are still presents af issues that doesn’t not allow some women to sports and also due to prejudice set up by society.

‘Muslim women have used sports as a means to empowerment, working towards health and wellbeing, women’s rights, and education.’

As empowering of women, I thought to include a touch of sport to my project. They are may sports, harmless and harmful, safe and dangerous. As for athletes in all categories of sport go third bad times and pain which puts them down and also somthimes ends their carriers; but it not that easy to give up, and you never giver up athletes in all sports come back stronger and so the audience what they are are capable of.