Women boxers 'won't be forced' to wear skirts
Women boxers will have the choice of wearing skirts or shorts in the ring at this year’s London Olympics, the sport’s world governing body says
A spokesman for the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) said the executive committee would vote “in the next few days” on the proposed solution to what has become a controversial issue.
AIBA president Ching-Kuo Wu of Taiwan told a world conference on women and sport in Los Angeles that female fighters would not be forced to wear skirts.
“Some women want to wear shorts and some want to wear skirts,” he said. “So the decision we have made is that we shall make it optional because many boxers are undecided.”
Women’s boxing is making its Olympic debut at the London Games in July and August with three gold medals on offer.
Several women boxers have criticised attempts to encourage them to wear skirts for what seemed to be purely aesthetic reasons. The women were offered skirts for the first time at the 2010 world championships in Barbados.
Romanian and Polish women boxers wore skirts at the European championships in Romania in 2010, with the Poles making them compulsory.

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maneater
women boxers wearing skirts. i will book a ringside seat i tell you. maybe banyana banyana might di the same.Report Abuse
XHINOPHOBIA
YA NE I WILL LV TO C DAT HAPPEN,AMATHANGA NDODA NEKHEKHE TJOReport Abuse
LastNumber
Forcing them to wear skirts will make it a much better spectator sport and bring in more revenue.Report Abuse
DJWinner
Skirts are good. Even soccer players should be wearing skirts. We want to see everything.Report Abuse
LaVidaLoca
@DJWinner - LOL...Tjoo wena, you pervet....But it'll look cool hey, Boxers weariing skirts or imagine women soccer players as well......
I would go watch that game any given time, Pity some women soccer players look like men
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johan3
you are funny gentlemen!Report Abuse
Bumboklaat
Skirts are good, I will watch each and every fight if they do that!Report Abuse
talldude
bull crapReport Abuse
Skhumbasenjendala
That's a good idea right there. We (men) want to feast our eyes and enjoy watching ku.ku.Report Abuse
mabeno
Jerr let it come, m waitingReport Abuse
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