Women Boxers Get Olympic Attire Choice
After months of debate, it has been announced that women boxers will be given the option of wearing either shorts or skirts when the sport makes its debut in the Olympics at London later this year.
The decision still has to be formally ratified by the AIBA Executive Committee but according to media reports, President of the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA), C K Wu is set to hold a postal ballot next week to ‘put the issue behind them.’
Wu revealed details of the plan at the 5th World Conference on Women and Sport in response to criticism from former 100 metres hurdles champion and current Chief of Sport Performance at USA Track and Field, Benita Fitzgerald-Mosley, that female boxers would be forced to wear skirts.
Wu said that women were never asked to wear skirts compulsorily, and that some women want to wear shorts, while some want to wear skirts.
The AIBA President added: ‘The decision we have made is that we shall make it optional [what they wear] because many boxers are undecided.’
‘We have many boxers who asked for shorts so the best thing to do is to let them decide individually.’
