Women’s Boxing in the Olympics
According to Wikipedia, Women’s boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration bout in 1904.
But that’s it. It never graced the Olympics as a bona fide sporting event even when women have been competing professionally in the sport for many years. Licenses weren’t even issued. I wonder why? Please don’t give me the gender role reason — I refuse to be stereotyped.
Women aren’t limited in doing and achieving certain things just because they’re supposedly the “weaker” sex. Pah. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m no feminist!)
Women’s boxing will not be at the 2008 Olympics, and it is very unlikely to become an official Olympic sport at the 2012 Olympics.
It’s simply frustrating to think that stuff like this still happens in this day and age.
Sigh.
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