The IOC’s first female president?
ABU DHABI — Here is one measure of how far the cause of women in sports has come:
They held a news conference here Tuesday at the Emirates Palace hotel in advance of Wednesday’s Laureus awards. The dais, from right to left: Edwin Moses, the incomparable 400-meter hurdles champion from the 1970s and 1980s who is now chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy chairman; Mohammed Ibrahim Al Mahmood, general secretary of the Abu Dhabi Sports Council; and Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco, the 1984 Los Angeles Games women’s 400-meter hurdles champion who over the past dozen years has become one of the most influential leaders within the International Olympic Committee.
Here is one measure of how far the cause of women in sports has yet to go:
“In Abu Dhabi,” the Laureus organizers cautioned in inviting the members of the press to a photo op at the hotel’s soccer field (it’s the Gulf – the hotel, $3 billion to build, has its own FIFA-caliber field), “it is not generally accepted that photos are taken of women or girls.
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