Women in Saudi Arabia cheer news they will be allowed into sport stadiums
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Women in Saudi Arabia on Monday welcomed the announcement that from next year they will be allowed to watch sporting events in previously all-male stadiums for the first time.
The move is the latest in a series of reforms in the deeply conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom that last month granted women the right to drive.
A statement from the General Sports Authority, carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency late on Sunday said three stadiums in the major cities of Jeddah, Dammam and Riyadh were being prepared to accommodate families in early 2018.
