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HAVANA (AFP) – Women's boxing is "inappropriate" and Cuban women will
therefore not be able to compete in the London 2012 Olympic Games, the
head of the Caribbean nation's sports federation, Jose Barrientos, said
Thursday.
"We have no intention of participating for the moment in any
international competition as we consider this discipline is
"inappropriate" for women, Barrientos said in remarks carried by the
Prensa Latina news agency.
Barrientos added there exists no development programme for women's
boxing in Cuba, a country which has produced a raft of champions in the
male variant.
Cuban head boxing trainer Pedro Roque told Cuban radio he recognised
that the discipline was under development for women elsewhere but that
Cuban women "are made for beauty and not to take blows around the head."
In contrast, wrestling and weightlifting have been open to Cuban women
since 2006.
Last week, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge
announced that women's boxing would be an Olympic sport at the 2012 Games.
Women's boxing "inappropriate:" Cuba - Yahoo! News (20 August 2009)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090820/sp_wl_afp/oly2012boxcub_20090820152347
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