My hijab or my sport

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It took Salimata Sylla three hours to get to the away fixture she was due to play with her basketball team mates from the Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers. But it was only a few minutes before the match started that she learned she was going to sit the game out on the bench. Despite playing for more than 10 years in the French Championship, the federation that controls her sport decided to apply the rule that forbids female basketball players from wearing the hijab. Reporter Claire Jones goes to Paris to meet Salimata to find out how she can resolve her wish to express her Muslim faith by wearing a hijab with her desire to play the sport she loves.

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0:04.1	$2.1 billion in stolen funds.
0:06.4	Money laundering operations.
0:07.7	The cyber-criminal group.
0:08.8	He's a smart guy.
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0:31.0	From BBC World Service, this is the documentary.
0:35.0	I'm Claire Jones and I'm in France for Heart and Soul,
0:39.0	which explores personal stories of faith and spirituality from around the world.
0:44.0	I've come to a basketball court in the Paris suburbs.
0:53.0	The court has painted red, white and blue,
0:55.0	and it's buzzing with young players shooting hoops.
1:00.0	When I play basketball, I feel so free, so limitless.
1:11.0	The basketball court is where we can be, what we can't be anywhere else.
1:18.0	Not at work or at home.
1:20.0	Here, we are free to express ourselves in our own way.
1:27.0	That's what basketball means to you.
1:29.0	So, it represents all of that for me, basketball.
1:32.0	Sally Marta Seller has been playing basketball since she was 11 years old.
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