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Thu 17 Jan, 2008 08:28 am
Quote:WASHINGTON - A high school track star has been disqualified from a meet because officials said the custom-made outfit she wears to conform to her Muslim faith violated competition rules.
Juashaunna Kelly, a senior at the District of Columbia's Theodore Roosevelt High School, has the fastest mile and 2-mile times of any girl runner in the city this winter. She was disqualified from Saturday's Montgomery Invitational indoor track and field meet.
Kelly was wearing the same uniform she has worn for three seasons while running for Theodore Roosevelt's cross-country and track teams. The custom-made, one-piece blue and orange unitard covers her head, arms, torso and legs. Over the unitard, she wears the same orange and blue T-shirt and shorts as her teammates.
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I don't understand this at all; she wore the same outfit for three years. Why disqualify her now when she has a good shot at qualifying for an Invitational at New York? It smaks of discrimination to me while being technically correct (I guess).
It does. I mean, the Olympics let Flo Jo compete in this kind of outfit:
I'm still unclear how it violated the uniform rule. It says the rule is that it has to be a single color, yet the school uniform was itself two colors.
Sounds like a bunch of BS. It was laughable when the guy said they must have missed it last year. Probably wouldn't be an issue if she wasn't Muslim. Somebody should investigate.
It looks suspicious, for sure.
I hope she gets her ass to a meet and prevails!
Intrepid wrote:Sounds like a bunch of BS. It was laughable when the guy said they must have missed it last year. Probably wouldn't be an issue if she wasn't Muslim. Somebody should investigate.
More likely, probably wouldn't have been an issue if she wasn't so good.
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