Over the past two decades, Afghan women and girls have been challenging gender barriers through sports creating a generation of female athletes that didn't just play sports behind closed doors, but challenged restrictions of women in public spaces, modesty laws, and cultural ideas of femininity. These women boxed, played basketball, football, cricket, skiers, snowboarders, mountain climbers, even most recently rugby players. Most famously, the first generation of Afghan cyclists transformed a 'right to ride' movement that claimed their right to exist on bicycles in the public transportation space by challenging the taboo of women on bikes through sport. This group was the first group that we worked to evacuate and as of February 24th we have evacuated the majority of female cyclists and several members of the men's national and provincial teams that were abandoned by their Federation. For these trailblazing sports women, the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan ends life as they know it