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Published July 21, 2012, 12:00 AM

Lucia Rijker


Boxer Lucia Rijker works out in a Los Angeles gym in 2005. Long the most prominent fighter in her sport, she now works as a coach and actor. Women who persevered years of discrimination are happy this year to see 36 female boxers on their way to the Olympics for the first time. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)
Read the article: Women’s boxing traveled long road to Olympics