Battling Burkas

posted by   arora (102)   15 months ago (www.sepiamutiny.com)

If womens boxing becomes an Olympic sport in 2012, the Afghan women’s boxing team is set to become the new feelgood story, the Jamaican bobsled team if you will. These women have a lot of heart, just to train, given restrictions on women even in post-Taliban Afghanistan: The training is sponsored by a peace group who want to give women more self-respect, and reclaim boxing as a sport in a