women boxers 2012 olympics..

what's your take on this?..allowing women boxing into 2012 olympics,personally I find it totally demeaning, why do women feel the need to punch the crap out off each other and be degraded,I cannot think of anything worse than to see women fighting,the gentler sex has now gone.have,nt they invaded enough mens sport! ladies should be ladies! sexy and beautiful to look at,not exploited as gladiators of bloodsports,sorry!!!,just dont like the idea,ray..

 

Ever watched it? Some of those women are pretty damned good fighters! Thats what matters, not what sex they are....I say good for the Olympic Committee to finally recognize it.

 

no I would,nt watch it..it's not about good fighters,its about femininity surely! why would you want to see women being beaten up! black eye's,broken nose, could even end up with brain damage! but that's my opinion,and respect yours,luketdrifter,ray..

 

I'm not keen but if they want to then so be.

 

The only thing I am against Women doing- (well-kinda)- is playing Football-the Ami kind of Football that is ;-)) I'd hate to see some probably very good looking ladies getting scarred up and such-like the men counterparts. Other than also them being in Combat-I have no probs with Women doing anything else ;-) The reason why I wouldn't want them to be in combat, is because the idea of our Ladies being maimed and or killed. There is something really disheartening about seeing any of our people killed-but especially the Ladies.

 

Ill tell you one thing that has been a great myth about women-in the past that is-is that they were always made fun of because they couldn't "hit the side of a barn" while firing a weapon. I've run up against quite a few ladies who equalled me or bested me on the firing range ;-))

 

I am fine with women boxing but i am upset that they removed womens softball from the Olympics, very unfair

 

I think it is great that women get boxing in the Olympics. Another gold for Norway.

Mener boksing er «upassende» for kvinner - bt.no

 

They should bring back bare-knuckle fighting, as it far safer than fighting with gloves.

 

Allowing womens rugby but finding boxing as dangerous is like telling somebody not to drive home it is dangerous, here have two bottles of gin so you can get shitfaced before getting behind the wheel...

 

Since gloves were introduced in boxing well over a thousand people have died in the boxing ring, in the hundred or so years before there were no recorded deaths in the boxing ring.

 

Since the Olympic Games are the pinnacle of international sports, everyone wants to see their favorite event in the competition. There's even an online petition that can be found at PokerInAthens.com, dedicated to including poker in the Olympics. In fact, they are on the right track.

To be included at this level, games must first be practiced by men in at least 75 countries and four continents, and by women in at least 40 countries and three continents. Next, they have to be governed by an International Federation before the International Olympic Committee can recognize them as a sport. Then, the Federation must file an application to become a demonstration sport.

After that, the sport may file another application to officially become an Olympic sport. However, the current trend at the IOC is to limit the number of sports to under 30, in order to reduce the size of the Olympics and give poorer countries a chance to host the Games.

As a result, there have been many sports that have been dropped over the years.

See:

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment_60/94_top_10_list.html

I wonder if women's softball didn't go the way of cricket? Not enough countries playing the sport, or a sport needed to be dropped to keep the venue under 30?

 

you cant believe it! what about spagbol eating? I've been training for yrs now? and gold medal prospects too clint..ray..

 

it is a real blow to softball though, other then the olympics, and college and the minor tourneys here and there this is their world series and it was taken away from them.

Baseball is played everywhere and it was taken away too, but baseball has the money to make their own olympic event for baseball, softball doesn't have that luxury. instead we get trampoline events

 

I don't disagree, I just wonder if the women's softball was simply too "thin" a sport for spectator draw at the games. Remember that golf (both genders), was also once an Olympic sport, but hasn't been one forever. It is worldwide, and has big money just like baseball, and it isn't in there anymore either.

 

No it isn't.

Has Baseball any form of international tournament, and if so, how many nations are involved ?

 

I think they should add a new ""Sport"" to the Summer Olympics line-up. The ""Sport"" of Competitive Eating. Now that's a sport I can enjoy watching--that is, the faces of he people getting sick from way-over-eating.

 

I was only pointing out that it (baseball) is played nearly everywhere, like golf. Even Britain has an amatuer league (I think). And there are international events in the lower levels, such as Little League. That is going on at the moment, and I think Taiwan is meeting a California team in the championship.

In the college ranks I believe there are international games (Mexico, US, Canada, Japan, at least) at the collegiate level, but only "exhibition" games at the professional level.

It (baseball) doesn't have an international governing body as required for the game above the "youth" level however, so that is one "strike against it" as per the rules for Olympic participation.

I was simply pointing out that baseball and golf are not in the Olympics either, and that women's softball might simply fall into the area of "underappreciated" and therefore on the wrong side of the "under 30 games" requirement.

I was wrong, about the international governing body, and there is a World Cup of Baseball, I found it on "Wiki..." of all places, but even they point out that it isn't as widely covered as the other World Cups.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_World_Cup

Sorry 'bout that chief!

 

What I find demeaning, is if someone says that a woman shouldn't do something simply for the fact that she is a woman. What's the big deal if a woman boxes. It is a sport, it's not about beauty.

Come on, we are in 2009 not 1912.. time to throw the old stereotypes out the door!


besides, is it degrading for a woman to fight in combat for her country? war is far worse than any boxing match put together..

How many out there have sacrificed their lives for their country? Did they go to war because they had to, or because they chose to?

They did it for the love of being a soldier, and to serve their country.. that applies with any sport, it's about the love of the game, and the willingness to seek victory.

But that's just my opinion...