Women enjoy dress option

Women boxers will have the choice of wearing skirts or shorts in the ring at this year's London Olympics, the sport's world governing body said on Sunday.

A spokesman for the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) said the executive committee would vote "in the next few days" on the proposed solution to what has become a controversial issue.

AIBA president Wu Ching-kuo of Chinese Taipei told a world conference on women and sport in Los Angeles on Saturday that female fighters would not be forced to wear skirts.