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Saudi duo break Olympic gender bar

Reported by Straits Times on Thursday, 12 July 2012 (on July 12, 2012)

GENEVA - Two women athletes from Saudi Arabia will compete at the London Games in a historic first for the country, the International Olympic Committee said yesterday.

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