Salut, Nike, for making sports accessible to more women!
“The Nike Pro Hijab was designed as a direct
result of our athletes telling us they needed this product to perform
better, and we hope that it will help athletes around the world do just
that,” Global Nike Spokeswoman Megan Saalfeld told Al Arabiya English.
Saalfeld
said the concept of launching an athletic hijab came after female
Emirati Olympic weightlifting athlete Amna Al Haddad visited Nike’s
sport research lab at their global headquarters in Oregon.
Haddad
complained that she only had one hijab that worked for her, and that
she had to wash it by-hand each night in the sink during competitions.
Zahra Lari made history by becoming the first woman from the United Arab
Emirates to compete at an international figure skating competition in
2012. (Photo: Nike)
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