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Teen Boxer Prepares for the Ring
Madison Marshall, 14, trains for an all-female amateur boxing event at Rosecroft Raceway in Maryland.
Madison Marshall shadowboxes during a gym workout. Maddie was diagnosed with asthma in 2008 before she started boxing late last year, but the infrequent attacks have not stopped her from training for her first amateur match.
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Instructor Daniel Attah unwraps Marshall's hands after a workout. Most days this summer, Marshall woke up at 5 a.m. to train at one of her father's gyms in Virginia.
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Tape for Marshall's hands. Her routine is always the same: get her hands taped, slip on boxing gloves the size of her face and wait for Vaseline to be smeared on her cheek and lips. It prevents cuts, and helps punches slide off.
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Attah tapes up Marshall before a workout. Marshall is one of 36 women competing in the all-female amateur boxing matches Saturday at Rosecroft Raceway in Maryland.
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Marshall jogs around body bags to get her heart rate up at the start of a workout. In amateur boxing, the goal is to throw as many punches as possible. A fight is three rounds, 90 seconds each. The punches come fast.
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You try not to get hit, but you always get hit, Marshall said. It does not really hurt. It just makes you want to hit back harder.
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Marshall, right, with instructor Jennifer Salinas. In the Washington region last year, there were about 941 amateur male boxers and fewer than 50 amateur female boxers.
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Marshall, left, with Salinas. The rise in women's amateur boxing can be credited to the increasingly mainstream appeal of the sport, said Christy Halbert, a longtime boxing coach and the chair of USA Boxing Women's Task Force.
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Attah eyes Marshall as she trains. Until Thursday, when the International Olympic Committee decided to include the sport in the 2012 games in London, boxing had been the only summer Olympic sport without female representation.
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Marshall, left, spars with Salinas. The decision to include women's boxing in the Olympics is like a dream come true, said one promoter.
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