A group of 20 Afghan females could show international sport a thing or two about women's rights.
They have challenged the suppression of their sex in the Middle East country by boxing in the underbelly of the Ghazi Stadium in Kabul – the very place where fellow women were previously executed under the Taliban regime.
They wear traditional hijab clothing beneath tracksuits and look incongruous as they trade punches and skip around the dilapidated room in a heart-warming bid to make the London 2012 Olympics.