For the first time since former President Fidel Castro’s revolution, Cuba has authorized women to compete in boxing. Sports officials said they’re choosing athletes for a national women’s boxing team. The World’s Tibisay Zea spoke with Namibia Flores, who, for years, was the only female boxer in Cuba.
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