The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has officially allowed players to go to the court in hijabs and other headgear, provided that they will be either black and white or combined with the color of the team's uniform.

The new rules will be effective from October 1. They say that the dress should not cover any part of the face and do not represent traumatic danger for other players, and also not have fasteners on the head and neck.

Since 2012, strict requirements for the clothes of athletes in international competitions have begun to weaken: volleyball players at the Olympic Games were allowed to play in less outright clothes, and since 2014 this has affected football players and basketball players, and in this connection at the last Olympiad in Rio one could observe a number of participants With a covered head.

Nevertheless, the incidents happened:

in the same year, 2014, the women's national team of Qatar refused to perform at the Asian Games, because there they did not allow the hijabs.

FIFA has already allowed women to play with their heads covered, if their religious beliefs so require.

Outside the sports world, hijabs in a number of countries remain the subject of heated debates: only in March, the European Court in Luxembourg ruled that employers have the right to prohibit employees from wearing Muslim headscarves in the workplace. This is reported by the Air Force.