![]() ![]() The climber posted to Instagram that she had made a mistake in a rush to compete and didn’t mean to climb without her hijab. ![]() And if sports cannot protect the women who play, how can we ever expect society at large to do it?ĭespite foggy detail and little evidence, for example, when stories emerged that Iranian rock climber Elnaz Rekabi had gone missing after competing in the Asian Continental Climbing Championships in Seoul without wearing a hijab, many believed them, with much speculation about her passport, her cell phone and her whereabouts. While circumstances may be vastly different, one thing remains the same: in different ways, in different places, female athletes are not safe. Griner’s continued Russian imprisonment sits among a barrage of headlines regarding dangerous situations for female athletes. Would public reaction to her situation or her fate itself be different, for example, if she were an NBA, not WNBA, star? Does anyone challenge the reality that Griner never would have been in Russia, where she receives a star’s salary to play for UMMC Yekaterinburg, in the first place apart from her gender and the pay gap that goes along with it? Griner’s plight raises tough questions regarding women in sports. ![]()
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