Rogers said he knew Kelly was wearing the uniform for religious reasons and that he offered her several options to conform to the rules while still respecting her faith, including placing a plain T-shirt over her unitard and then wearing her team uniform over it.***
She refused acceptable options.
She and her mother say that is not true, and the officials kept changing the requirements.
I don't know who is telling the truth, but it does not appear to me that the unitard would give her a competitive advantage; if anything, the opposite.
I really don't see the problem, and the tone of some of the posts here is really rather offensive.
If I am reading the article correctly it sounds like she was only confronted with this at the track meet when it would be too late to get her custom made uniform to meet the standard...a uniform that no official had a problem with for the 3 previous years keep in mind. From the sound of her and her Mom I bet they will have a uniform that meets the color requirements and her religious requirements at the same time for the next event. It's unfortunate that they wouldn't let her run one last time in the outfit and thus we are now reading about this in the national news.