Saudi survey: Majority of Saudis favor women’s right to sports

Saudi judo player Widan Shakhrkhani at the London Olympi

By James M. Dorsey
A vast majority of Saudis favor women having the right to fully engage in sports in a country that has no official facilities for female athletes or physical education programs for girls in schools, according to a Saudi sociology researcher, who has put forward a series of recomme…