Saudis won't bring women to Olympics

wow.

After reading that I wondered what happened with the Olympics during Apartheid in South Africa and found the following on Wiki:

'The International Olympic Committee (IOC) withdrew its invitation to South Africa to the 1964 Summer Olympics when interior minister Jan de Klerk insisted the team would not be racially integrated.[6] In 1968, the IOC was prepared to readmit South Africa after assurances that its team would be multi-racial; but a threatened boycott by African nations and others forestalled this.[7] South Africa was formally expelled from the IOC in 1970.[8]
In 1976, African nations demanded that New Zealand be suspended by the IOC for continued contacts with South Africa, including a tour by the New Zealand national rugby union team. When the IOC refused, the African teams withdrew from the games.[9] This contributed to the Gleneagles Agreement being adopted by the Commonwealth in 1977.[10]
The IOC adopted a declaration against "apartheid in sport" on June 21, 1988, for the total isolation of apartheid sport.[3]'

Why the hell can't they be as firm on sexism as on racism?