26-05-2025
A basketball player was sidelined for her headscarf. France may now ban them in all sports
PARIS — Salimata Sylla was about to lead her team onto the basketball court, as she had done many times before.
On that Sunday morning, she and her teammates had completed a three-hour bus trip from the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers to a rival club in northern France. They had changed and warmed up, and Sylla, the team captain, was ready to go.
