Hijab-clad Olympics fencer says she was held at US airport

Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first American to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab, has said she was recently detained at US Customs for two hours without explanation.

Ibtihaj said she did not know if she was held as a result of the Trump administration's travel ban but is sure the move was a result of her ethnicity.

"I don't know why. I can't tell you why it happened to me, but I know that I'm Muslim. I have an Arabic name. And even though I represent Team USA and I have that Olympic hardware, it doesn't change how you look and how people perceive you," she told the web site Popsugar during a speaking engagement at the MAKERS Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

Ibtihaj won bronze in team sabre at the Rio Olympics last year. She became the first female Muslim-American athlete to earn a medal at the Olympics. "My human response is to cry because I was so sad and upset and disheartened – and just disappointed," Ibtihaj said.