Female boxers in miniskirts

The people running Olympic boxing claim they’re not crooks, despite allegations made in a BBC television program that $9 million was paid by Azerbaijan to make sure the former Soviet republic wins two gold medals at the Olympics next year in London, the Washington Post reports.

Charge them with being sexist, though, and they have no choice but to plead guilty.

There’s really no other way to explain proposals by the International Amateur Boxing Association to make sure women competing in Olympic boxing for the first time in London get their fair share of attention.

They want them to wear skirts.

Better yet, they would like them to be miniskirts.

The official line is that skirts will make it easier for the casual Olympic boxing fan to tell female boxers apart from the men. Imagine the confusion, after all, if someone on their living room couch believes they are watching Daniel fight for a gold medal when who they’re really seeing is Danielle.