Female Afghan boxers are currently training in Kabul for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The athletes are utilizing the city’s main stadium, once used by the Taliban to publicly execute women accused of adultery. Females were banned from participating in any sport under the former regime, and it is still extremely rare in rural areas of the country.
In order to compete in the games, the Afghans will have to pass a pre-qualifying stage in July of next year. According to Afghanistan’s Olympic committee, the nation is expecting to send six women to the games to compete in boxing, judo, and taekwondo. This is a major development for a country that formerly shunned females from athletic competition merely a decade ago. AFP has the full story here. In addition, a short video of their training can be found at the link below.
March 14th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Yeah, leave it to the A-rab women to throw hands. In their society they do the heavy lifting anyway while the men sit around and play stink-finger. Maybe we should give them guns and let them save their country. It’s not like they don’t have plenty of bones to pick with the muslim men.
March 15th, 2011 at 4:28 am
This is good news. Perhaps Islamic women will start beating on and hen-pecking their husbands like Christian and Jewish women do and finally reform their societies?
March 15th, 2011 at 4:29 am
Let’s face it! It’s Conservative women who are leading the pack these days. I for one am happy to follow any woman who sports a gun.
March 15th, 2011 at 4:39 am
Proving the old adage….You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word.
March 15th, 2011 at 8:21 am
I had an Afghan Boxer
March 15th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
OK Micky I’ll take the bait. What’s an Afghan Boxer? (a dog?).
March 15th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Yup.
Hairest Boxer I’d ever seen.
Great combo for pig hunting. Run like the wind, great endurance and have good take down.
Some schmuck shot it by accident.
Burrs kept gettin in its coat so we buzzed it with a body length mohawk. guess at some point it looked like a boar. RIP Bob.
Seriously.
If these women actually make it to the Olympics it’ll be a milestone in the face of the most sexually frustrated men on earth.
I have a feeling they’ll be seeking asylum in some western nation shortly there after.
They’ll be executed one way or the other.
If they lose they’ll be stoned to death in public and I can hardly see them dookin it out in burkhas so then they’re faced with punishment for showin skin.
I’m not talkin about Taliban. Mainstream Muslims cant be too crazy about this idea either
March 15th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
I for one am happy to follow any woman who sports a gun.
Oh… you silly hillbillies and your guns.
March 18th, 2011 at 4:02 am
Now that’s progress!