Helene Ba’s basketball dreams were shattered when the French Basketball Federation (FFBB) announced a nationwide ban on players competing in religious attire. Undeterred, she launches ‘Basketball for All,’ an inclusive movement to confront perceived religious discrimination in France and provide a safe space for Muslim women athletes.<\/p>\n
As Paris prepares to host the Olympic Games, where all athletes representing France have been banned from wearing the hijab, Helene undertakes a city-wide mission to select players for a unique tournament. Together, Helene and the players hope to challenge the hijab ban in a defiant act of protest that will truly reflect the nation\u2019s diversity.<\/p>\n
Paris: Game Changers is a documentary film by Adriana Cardoso and Rodrigo Hernandez.<\/p>\n
More from Witness on: #documentary #France #aljazeeraenglish #Paris #parisolympics #olympics #hijabban<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Helene Ba’s basketball dreams were shattered when the French Basketball Federation (FFBB) announced a nationwide ban on players competing in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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