PARIS (Reuters) - Kaylee McKeown has ruled women's backstroke with an iron fist since dominating the Tokyo Olympics but a young American with a chip on her shoulder could derail the Australian's bid for greatness at Paris.
Archive photo from 2003 of French women in Paris wearing hijabs and protesting the French government's decision to ban the headscarves in schools, hospitals, and public buildings. — Filepic/AFP
As she said that, she embarrassedly covered her mouth with her hand. She seemed regretful, perhaps because she hadn't warned me earlier or because her colleague who took our order didn’t mention it, or because she was envious that our mistake allowed us to at least have a brief taste of the forbidden. It was all a little complicated.
Between 1994 and 2003, around 100 female students were suspended or expelled for wearing the hijab, though around half of the decisions were overturned by French courts. In 2004, a law banned conspicuous religious symbols in state schools and hospitals, and continues to this day.
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