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Boxing clever: women to go for gold

By Rags Martel

Updated on 12 August 2009

It was once considered a back-street sport and a freak show but tomorrow women's boxing is likely to be accepted on the biggest stage of all, the Olympics. More4 News reports.

Female boxer (credit: Reuters)

Organisers of the London 2012 games are set to add the event to the programme and it is a growth sport with the number of amateur women boxers increasing ten fold in the last four years.

Nevertheless, there are still some big names in the fight game who hate the idea.

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