Growing numbers of Gulf women eyeing Olympic glory

http - March 20th, 2011

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- The awards ceremony for the Gulf Cooperation Council Women's Games was hardly on the grandest of stages. But the makeshift podium in a tiny conference room of a mostly empty sports resort was the closest thing to an Olympic moment the three women from Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait had ever experienced -- and they embraced it. As cameras flashed and a

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