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Saudi Arabia’s exception at Olympics a mystery

By John Powers

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 24, 2012

The International Olympic Committee kept South Africa out of the Games for 28 years for its racist ‘apartheid’ policies and banned Afghanistan in 2000 for the Taliban’s repression of women yet Saudi Arabia still is welcome despite its refusal to allow females to compete.

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