Saturday, 21 July 2012

Women's boxing traveled long road to Olympics (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this Friday, July 8, 2005 file photo, boxer Lucia Rijker works-out in a Los Angeles gym. A generational struggle culminates in London at the first Olympic women's boxing tournament. Rijker is only the most prominent example of women who became fascinated by this brutal sport, persevering through discouragement, disinterest and outright discrimination to put 36 women boxers from six continents on their nations' Olympic teams for the first time. Boxing was the only summer Olympic sport without a female analogue until 2009, when the IOC voted to include it in London. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

When Lucia Rijker dropped in at the European Championships of women's boxing in her native Netherlands last year, the greatest fighter in the history of her sport was overwhelmed by the splendor of what she saw.




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