IT has taken a while, but women's place in the combat sports arena has finally been sealed with confirmation that the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will follow the Olympic precedent by including women's boxing.
IT has taken a while, but women's place in the combat sports arena has finally been sealed with confirmation that the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will follow the Olympic precedent by including women's boxing.
And after the picnic, they boxed . . . How times have changed . . . once ruled a health risk by the IOC, women's boxing is now widely accepted throughout the world
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Doug Gillon
The battle for acceptance has been plagued by conflicting medical opinion, entrenched chauvinism, and confused feminist campaigners. The latter stridently demanded the same opportunities for women while paradoxically not extending this to sport.
Yet the Amazons of mythology show fighting women predate recorded history. Modern society might regard mastectomy (the better to unleash arrows) as a step beyond eccentricity. However, heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis is just one of many who considered women's boxing "a freak show". And just before London, a poll by Britain's leading Games website showed 73% of nearly 7000 respondents disapproved of women boxing.
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