American fencer will become first to compete wearing hijab in Rio Olympics

Ibtihaj Muhammad was a college fencer at Duke University in 2004, the year her sport women's saber became an Olympic event at the Games in Athens, Greece She had been an athletic child but started fencing at the age of 13, as it was a sport that allowed her to conceal her hijab with the fencing helmet Muhammad will be the first Muslim American to compete at the Olympics in a hijab Ibtihaj Muhammad