3 Nations to Send First Female Athletes to Olympics

This summer's Olympics in London may be the first in which every nation will send at least one female athlete, reports the New York Times. That's because three Muslim holdouts—Saudi Arabia, Brunei, and Qatar—are expected to grudgingly make the concession. Don't expect full teams: Saudi Arabia may send a lone equestrian, for example, and Brunei is expected to send a relatively inexperienced runner, notes the International Herald Tribune.

“While tokenistic participation is welcome, it wouldn’t change our position that the (International Olympic Committee) should effect more systemic change,” says a Human Rights Watch researcher. (More Saudi Arabia stories.)