coach, Tony Bowden, said that the girl has amazing scope for improvement. The mother who sooner or later will see the Olympics. The commissioner's race, however, be disqualified because the athlete runs with the Muslim veil. If you want to compete at high level - says the official - must comply with the rules of clothing provided for the bottom and the middle-distance and therefore can not run with the veil. If they refuse to remove the disqualification. It is the story of a 16 year old from the District of Columbia, Juashaunna Kelly (left in photo), the undisputed champion at state schools on the distance of two miles and miles.
The "problem" is Kelly which is strict Muslim. In recent years it has settled a suit making a special package. In the race worn under the colors of his school, the Theodore Roosevelt High School for three years and never had any difficulties: the commissioners usually the call, the call for a different reason for quell'abbigliamento, after which the grant of access the start of the race (which often Kelly wins).
Except that - as reported in today's national newspaper front page Washington Post - the last competition to which Kelly took part in the race director Tom Rogers did not allow it to take off. "If you want to race you get that suit. The rules of athletics are also precise with regard to the clothing."
- "But I'm not going mica faster if I wear this suit - he tried to explain Kelly - I put it because I'm Muslim ...".
- "It's the same, the rules are the same for all," replied the judge, who had also often allowed to run in the last three years. But this time no, because the competition at which Kelly had to take part was the final qualifier to school in New York, where visibility is national.
What Kelly is one of the first cases in the United States, where sports and faith conflict for reasons of fashion. The most famous in this regard concerns the Muslim basketball player Andrea Armstrong of the University of South Florida. The coach asked not to wear the curtain fell on the floor once, she refused and appealed to the NCAA, the organization that oversees competitive sport in the U.S. up to university level. Armstrong quit the team (and basketball) before a decision was taken.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
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