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David Reid
Sadaf Rahimi is an female Afghan flyweight boxer who will be competing in the 2012 Olympics. She is the third woman from Afghanistan to compete in the Olympics. Her older sister, Shabnam, is also a boxer. She's considered a landmark athlete as she is the first female boxer to compete in the Olympics from Afghanistan, which historically has not been open to women pursuing sport. Her family has apparently received death threats for having daughters that participate in what's seen as a men-only-sport.
Saina Nehwal participated in women's singles and was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
No women were allowed to watch the Olympics because they were not considered citizens.
In The Ancient Olympics only men were. In the Modern Olympics Women were only aloowed to compete from 1930 onwards
That was Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. As of the 2008 Games, she is the only Indian women to win a medal at the Olympics.
Yes, but only for women.
They're sending a boxer (bantamweight Emilian Polino) as their only competitor.
No Indian woman has won an Olympic medal in athletics. Through the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, only one Indian woman has won a medal. That is Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal in women's 69 kg weightlifting at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
Neville DSouza
Woman did not compeate in ancient olympics only men did and they did not know what to where so the wore nothing!
Only men were able to compete in the Ancient Olympics. Women were forbid to enter the Ancient Olympics, or, Olympia, as it was called back then.