Which countries are NOT sending women athletes to the Athens Olympics
and how can I get hold of a France-based organisation called Atlanta
Plus (or Atlanta+) an organisation campaigning for greater female
participation in the Olympics?

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Clarification of Question by victoriapeckham-ga on 16 Jun 2004 06:46 PDT

When I say get hold of, I mean a phone number or a email address. x

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 16 Jun 2004 18:09 PDT

Hello victoriapeckham-ga

I have found an address and phone number for one of the co-founders of
the Atlanta Plus organization and an e-mail address for the other
co-founder. I could not locate contact information for the
organization itself. Would this information be of interest to you? If
yes, I suggest that you adjust the price of this question so that I
can give you my answer.

The question about what countries are not sending any women to Athens
is much tougher. I suggest that you post it as a separate question at
a higher price.

I look forward to your clarification.

~ czh `

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Clarification of Question by victoriapeckham-ga on 16 Jun 2004 23:32 PDT

Yes, a phone number and email would be sufficient as long as up to
date and working. These people should, in any case have the info about
which countries are not sending women. Thank you for your help. vp

Hello again victoriapeckham-ga,

Thank you for your clarification. Although I?ve spent a lot of time
trying to find information about the representation of women at the
2004 Athens Olympics, I haven?t been able to identify the countries
that will not have a women?s team. I was able to find this information
for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and I hope that will give you a close
idea of the current status of countries not likely to send women to
Athens.

I?ve also been able to find the Atlanta Plus organization. It has
evolved to Atlanta-Sydney Plus and now it is Atlanta-Sydney-Athens
Plus. The cofounders were Annie Sugier and Linda Weil-Curriel. I?ve
found an e-mail address for Annie and an address and phone number for
Linda. Thank you for accepting these as a sufficient answer to your
question.

I came across some interesting sites related to women in the Olympics
and I?ve included some of them for further exploration.

Best wishes for your projects.

~ czh ~


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WOMEN AT THE OLYMPICS
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http://www.activeaustralia.org/women/wom_olym.htm
Women's Participation - 2000 Sydney Olympics

At the 2000 Olympic Games women were represented in greater numbers
than ever before. According to Professor Stivachtis in her article
"New Record For Women's Sport" , many participation records were
broken, including the following:

 -- the number of female competitors went from 3,624 at Atlanta to
4,254 in Sydney;
 -- teams without women competitors went from 26 in Atlanta to 9 in Sydney; and 
 -- the number of women's events increased from 97 to 120. 

SUMMARY TABLE - WOMEN AT THE 2000 OLYMPIC GAMES ?No Women

Botswana
Br Virgin Is
Brunei Darussalam
Djibouti
Kuwait
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates

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http://www.oup.com/pdf/elt/catalogue/0-19-422872-X-a.pdf
From Athens to Athens

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http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/824
02/22/02 -- Women's Share at Olympic Competitions Drops

Despite dramatic advances in the number of women competing at the
Olympic games, men still outnumber women 2 to 1 on the playing
field--and 10 to 1 in the boardrooms of the Olympics' governing
bodies.

In addition, of the 78 countries participating in Salt Lake, 22
brought no women to the games, including Belgium, Thailand, Mexico,
South Africa and India, according to news reports. (Hong Kong fielded
the only all-female team, comprising 3 short-track speed skaters.) In
Nagano, 18 of 72 nations fielded all-male delegations, the committee
reported.

"If the IOC could ban South Africa for 28 years on the basis of racial
discrimination, why can't it do the same on the basis of gender?" said
Linda Weil-Curiel, founder of Atlanta Plus, a France-based group
fighting for equal representation of women at the Olympics. The
organization was founded prior to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is now
focused on bringing more women to the Athens games in 2004.



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ATLANTA PLUS
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http://www.annuaire-au-feminin.tm.fr/bioWEILLcuriel.html
Linda WEIL-CURIEL
Cabinet d'Avocats
6 Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés F-75006 PARIS
Fax : (33-1) 45 49 16 71

http://www.ifrance.com/adisport/Rubriques/Injustices/CMDB/CMDB-acc.htm
Linda Weil-Curriel (avocate et présidente Atlanta-Sydney-Athènes +)

http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=5138
Linda Weil-Curriel (avocate et présidente Atlanta-Sydney-Athènes +), 

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http://www.annuaire-au-feminin.tm.fr/signatairesDUSHANBE.html
SUGIER Annie, Présidente "Atlanta Sydney Plus"
annie.sugier@ipsn.fr

http://worfa.free.fr/call_for_action.htm
SUGIER Annie Présidente Atlanta Sydney Plus 

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2000/09/15/wolff_afghan_athletes/
Perseverance pays off 
Afghan women earn spot in Opening Ceremonies

None of the aforementioned would have happened without the efforts of
Atlanta-Sydney Plus. The group, run by Parisian lawyer Linda
Weil-Curiel and another Frenchwoman, physicist Annie Sugier,
coordinated the trips of the three young athletes and got the Massoud
government on board.



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OLYMPICS RESOURCES
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http://www.athens2004.com/athens2004/
The official website of the ATHENS 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games

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http://www.westernpolicy.org/Country%20Pages/OlympicWatch.asp
Olympic Games Facts




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2004 athens olympics "no women"
2004 athens olympics women
?Atlanta Plus?
Linda Weil-Curriel
SUGIER Annie

Was a thorough search but email address didn t work and phone no was
only a fax. I subsequently found a phone number searching myself. But
this is a quibble. And, i have since learned no one yet knows for sure
which countries will not send women to Olympics, not until a few days
before opening ceremony.

If you read French, the answer is in this AFP report:
"Les jeux Olympiques toujours en quete de mixite parfaite"
http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=2&subid=696&art_id=175509

It says that about 40% of the 10,500 athletes in Athens will be women.
Six delegations will have no women, according to estimates, because of
cultural or religious reasons.