SAUDI Arabia wants to host the Olympics — the catch being it’s only willing to allow male athletes to compete on its soil.
Prince Fahad bin Jalawi al-Saud, a Saudi Olympic Committee consultant, is proposing a joint bid in which the games be segregated with Bahrain hosting the women’s competitions.
“Our society can be very conservative. It has a hard time accepting that women can compete in sports,” he told Francs Jeux, a French sports website. “We could envisage a joint bid. Bahrain would hold the women’s events, we would hold the men’s competitions.”
The International Olympic Committee recently changed its rules to allow joint bids.