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Discovering Women's Boxing: "Here We Go Again" (OCT 31) The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is located, appropriately, in the Broadcast House in Westminster, a section of London, England. London will be host to the 2012 Summer Olympics beginning July 27. During those Games, Women's boxing will debut as an Olympic sport. Those three facts coalesced last week (October 26) in the form of a 300 word article, by BBC Sport, about amateur female boxers who will be competing in 2012. It may not have been the first story this venerable news organization published on the subject, but it was the one that generated the biggest reaction with the female boxing community. The subject of the BBC article was whether Olympic women boxers should be compelled to wear skirts, in the ring, during the Games. The reaction, in the boxing community, was, predictably, "here we go again."
Here we go again with mainstream press coverage of female boxers that gets it absolutely wrong. Rather than concentrating on athletes who participate in a sport that demands an ultimate level of courage along with skill and endurance, the BBC, a bastion of journalism, hones in on a superfluous issue relating specifically to the gender of the athletes. Here we go again with off-target media coverage that wanders far from the essence of a sport and falls into pandering, parochial, pathetic views of an already often misunderstood sport while at the same time presenting readers with nothing approaching an insightful view of a sport that is an often artful, sometimes brutal exhibition of athletic prowess by world class boxers who happen to be female. |
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