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Blog Entry: (China Sports) Women's boxing makes debut in 2010 Asian Games GUANGZHOU, China, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The upcoming 2010 Asian Games will usher in women's boxing for the first time in any international sports gala. At a press briefing by the Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee here on Wednesday, Li Xiaofeng, a senior official of the Games' competition department, said that a total of 476 events in 42 sports will be competed at the fortnight meeting slated for Nov. 12- 27. The most striking addition was the inclusion of women's boxing in the competition program of the 2010 Asian Games, said Li. The 2010 Asian Games will stage three events of flyweight, lightweight and middleweight for the women boxers across the continent after rounds of consultation between the organizing committee and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), said the Chinese sports official. brochure printing In last August, the International Olympic Committee decided to include women's boxing for the first time in the Olympic Games in 2012. Women's boxing, which first came to prominence in England in 1720, only appeared as a demonstration sport at the 1904 Olympics. The Asian Games, the second-largest sports event in the world after the Summer Olympics, will be held in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, which attracts more than 14,000 athletes, coaches and officials from 45 countries and regions. In August 2008, the OCA sanctioned the 464 events for the Games as proposed by the organizing committee, which made the adjustment to 473 in July 2009. Later on, the OCA made further request to add paper bag printing more events to the Games and the final number of 476 events was agreed on with the inclusion of women's boxing and kabadi, the Chinese official revealed. Li further explained that many women events will make their debut at the Asian Games, including kabaddi, polo, cricket, roller skating, dragon boat, go-chess, chinese chess and boxing. Other articles: http://www.huayang-biology.com/Americanborn-pandas-doing-wel.html http://www.christianmusictimes.net/blog/view/id_465/ http://watches2010.noramba.net/e85968.html
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