Via Ron C, the struggle for women's basketball in Saudi Arabia, which doesn't send female athletes to the Olympics.

Lina al-Maeena, who founded a club team in Jeddah, says she's seen how youth sports help girls there. "Girls arrive shy, and in a very short period they are outgoing, energetic, motivated," she says. Basketball "gives them a sense of empowerment."

Maybe that explains why some people don't like it.