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TexasTowelie

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Wed Mar 8, 2017, 12:55 AM Mar 2017

Nike introduces sports hijabs for athletes


Nike is releasing sports hijabs for Muslim athletes. In a press release, the company says figure skater Zahra Lari (pictured) is already wearing the product (not pictured). (Photo by Tom Dulat/Getty Images)

Nike will start selling sports hijabs to Muslim athletes, Fortune reported.

The company's new product will be part of its Nike Pro line.

Nike said it started developing the hijab after some Muslim athletes expressed frustration with competing while wearing a traditional hijab, according to CNN.

"The Nike Pro Hijab may have been more than a year in the making, but its impetus can be traced much further back, to an ongoing cultural shift that has seen more women than ever embracing sport," Nike said in a statement, according to WWJ-TV. "This movement first permeated international consciousness in 2012, when a hijabi runner took the global stage in London."

Read more: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national/nike-introduces-sports-hijabs-for-athletes/GTeYRg15Y4c9yJItxblybM/
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Nike introduces sports hijabs for athletes (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
I wonder how many deplorables will quit buying Doreen Mar 2017 #1
They'll switch to UnderArm brand. safeinOhio Mar 2017 #2
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