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Saudi Arabia double female participants
Saudi Arabia will send four women to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, doubling its female participation after two women competed for the first time at the 2012 London Games.
Hosam Al-Qurashi, executive director of the Saudi Olympic Committee, said that two of the women will participate in track and field, one in judo and one in fencing.
The track and field athletes are Sarah Attar, who competed in 2012, and Cariman Abu Al-Jadail. Judoka Wujud Fahmi and fencer Lubna Al-Omair are the other competitors.
Attar, Abu Al-Jadail and Fahmi have been training in the United States, where they are students. Al-Omair will be traveling to Rio from the eastern Saudi city of Khobar.
A total of 11 Saudi athletes are competing in Rio of which five have been given wild card entries by the International Olympic Committee, including all four women.
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