Starting at the 2012 Games in London, both men and women will compete in boxing. Women will compete in flyweight, lightweight, and middleweight classes.
The International Olympic Committee had previously used excuses like 'universal appeal' and 'medical concerns' to keep women from competing in boxing.
The 2008 Games in Beijing was the last Olympics where only men competed in boxing. Women will compete in boxing at the 2012 Games. Only women compete in synchronized swimming.
No only men and boys can compete?
At the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, sports that only men participated in were baseball and boxing. Baseball has been discontinued in Olympic competition and starting in 2012, there will be women's boxing competition. At the 2012 Summer Games in London, there will be no men only sports. why
men were the only ones alowed to compete
boxing
Yes. The country is sending four athletics to the Beijing games, to compete in the events of 110m hurdles (Men), 100m (Women), Boxing (Lightweight, Men) and Judo (Men).
Men compete in decathlon, women compete in heptathlon. Men do not compete in heptathlon, women do not compete in decathlon.
Men Boxing was created in 1891.
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Mostly wrestling and boxing
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