The Olympic athlete looking for respect amid France's Olympic hijab ban

Road cyclist, Masomah Ali Zada of the Refugee Olympic hopes federations can help diversity to grow in sport.

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00:00Honestly, it's a really difficult question to answer for myself as a woman who wear this scarf

00:07but I'm really happy to be in the Refugee Olympic team and they respect me as I am and

00:13I participate in the Olympic Games and cycling with my scarf and

00:18hopefully UCI didn't have any problem with that and Refugee Olympic team also respect me and I hope that

00:25every

00:26International Federation, they have their own rule about that. So

00:32Sometimes I really don't know what to say. Maybe it's difficult for me to answer for this question.