France Won’t Let Its Athletes Wear Hijabs at the Olympics

Paris’s mayor may be celebrating the city’s readiness to host the Olympics next week by swimming in the formerly E. coli–infested Seine, but not everyone is impressed with the host city. On Tuesday, Amnesty International called France’s refusal to allow its athletes to wear hijabs while competing in the Games discriminatory and hypocritical.

“French authorities made it emphatically and unashamedly clear … that their proclaimed efforts at improving...