Jihan El Midany – Set To Make History At Youth Olympics
August 14th marks the start of the Youth Olympics. In Egypt, it also will be the beginning of something else: this will be the first time that a woman from Egypt serves as flag bearer in an Olypic event. Jihan El Midany, 18-year-old Egypt native, will be a part of a competition amongst 3,600 other adolescents from 204 countries. These youngsters, between the ages of 14 and 18, compete in the same 26 sports that are featured in the Summer Olympics.
If Jihan El Midany succeeds in winning a medal in swimming, shooting, fencing or swimming, she will be the first woman in her country ever to do so. El Midany has said that she just hopes she can “be a good role model. I want to prove that the veil does not have to prevent girls from doing anything.” In today’s Muslim society, many families frown upon sports and would rather their girls indoors. However, Muslim girls all over the world are getting more active, starting leagues for sports and participating in competitions that would have been unfathomable just years ago. The Vice President of the Egyptian Federation of Modern Pentathlon, Sharif A. El-Erain, hopes that Midany’s success will spur on other girls.
Here is what other people are saying about Jihan El Midany:
Egyptian woman will make history at Youth Olympics « Artesia News
SINGAPORE (AP) — When Jihan El Midany leads the Egyptian delegation into Saturday’s opening ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympics, it will be a historic moment for her country. The 18-year-old pentathlete will become the first woman …
Publish Date: 08/13/2010 9:05
http://www.artesianews.com/2010/08/13/egyptian-woman-will-make-history-at-youth-olympics/
10-13-08 | Egyptian Woman Will Make History at Youth Olympics | 41 NBC
Jihan El Midany will lead the Egyptian delegation into the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympics on Saturday. If she wins a medal as expected in the pentathlon event that includes swimming, shooting, fencing and running, …
Publish Date: 08/13/2010 9:10
http://www.41nbc.com/news/10081340168420/egyptian-woman-will-make-history-youth-olympics
World Cup #2 – Cairo, Egypt – Womens Semifinals
Jihan El Midany (EGY) 3432 13. Laura Salminen (FIN) 3428 14. Tabea Budde (GER) 3420 15. Mhairi Spence (GBR) 3404 16. Lada Jienbalanova (KAZ) 3400 17. Svetlana Lebedeva (RUS) 3392 18. Claudia Cesarini (ITA) 3340 …
Publish Date: 03/24/2010 9:06
http://pentathloncircuit.blogspot.com/2010/03/world-cup-2-cairo-egypt-womens.html
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Posted by Robert Hammer
on Aug 13 2010. Filed under Sports.
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