The International Olympic Committee (IOC) warned Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Tuesday that allowing women and young girls safe access to sport was a condition for the country’s representation at the 2024 Paris Games. Female sport in Afghanistan has been crushed since the Taliban took over from a Western-backed government in August 2021. The IOC executive board expressed “serious concern” and “strongly condemned” restrictions on women after a meeting in Lausanne where it received a full report on the Olympic and sports movement in Afghanistan. It did not set any deadline, however. “The speci…