Arefa, 24, and 22-year-old Mina are set to make history when they represent Afghanistan at the UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow.
Women and girls in their home country have been banned from playing and competing in sport since UK and international forces left the country two years ago and the Taliban took over.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/afghan-women-who-fled-taliban-to-make-history-at-uci-cycling-world-championships-in-glasgow-12930304
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22 Comments
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8 M illion U krainian W omen have F led Zele R egime
Good.
Don't wanna see them anywhere near my county Oxfordshire to be honest
So happy for these women ❤
Hope they do well, fair play to them for getting to the world championships.They're proper feminists.
Amazing, best of luck!
No woman should stay in that country.
Just wait till they realise that men are allowed to compete against women here.
Are we allowed to call fenales women?!
Good for them
Well done for getting out. Good luck with the championship!
I thought we don't know what a woman is.
Afghans were at war and poor, but they never thought of moving to countries like China 🇨🇳, why??
Well done these are the people we need 🎉 stay strong love from Norway
The Afghan men ran away like rodents!
Millions of Afghani women welcomed the Taliban.
Basically, without the propaganda, we the British people who never wanted the war in either iraq or Afghanistan now have to put up with immigrat Afghans in our country. Send the slime back! We don't want them!
So what is a woman?? 😂
👏👏👏
The Taliban are in the right with how they treat women.
Good for them, good luck ladies, may your dreams come true!