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keithwhu asked Laura Saperstein: "What benefits do you think boxing has brought to you personally?"
Laura Saperstein answers: "It’s hard to put into words. It’s given me so many things. I feel like I have a purpose in my life and I didn’t feel that before. I now feel that I have an exciting life and I have a destiny and I’m here..." Show more»" It’s hard to put into words. It’s given me so many things. I feel like I have a purpose in my life and I didn’t feel that before. I now feel that I have an exciting life and I have a destiny and I’m here doing what I’m supposed to do. I have more confidence, I look better, my life is interesting. I meet lots of different people from all walks of life. And I get to work with the other girls which is exciting and with the problems in the UK with obesity and general lack of fitness and healthiness, boxing is going to give me a platform to try and help that situation. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Sport | Email to friends | Dec 14 2007 1:03:53 PM
lavanya1307 asked Laura Saperstein: "Based on your own personal experience, what advise would you give the aspiring female boxer?"
Laura Saperstein answers: "A lot of people give up because it’s not easy. So my advice would be if there’s an obstacle don’t give up because there is always a way round it. Look for support from people already in the sport, speak..." Show more»" A lot of people give up because it’s not easy. So my advice would be if there’s an obstacle don’t give up because there is always a way round it. Look for support from people already in the sport, speak to other girls who are boxing, if you need a bit of help getting a fight use the boxer girl website or speak to someone like me who has already encountered those difficulties and can give some insight on how to combat them. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Sport | Email to friends | Dec 14 2007 1:04:49 PM
shakeel8 asked Vivienne Nathanson : "Recent media reports highlight both childhood obesity and growing disinterest in sports among teenage girls as major health concerns. Given that there is no real evidence to show that amateur boxing ..." Show more »"Recent media reports highlight both childhood obesity and growing disinterest in sports among teenage girls as major health concerns. Given that there is no real evidence to show that amateur boxing can cause long term health problems, if children are interested in taking this up as a sport wouldn’t the advantages of being active outweigh the disadvantages of minor injuries? " Show less »
Vivienne Nathanson answers: "Obesity is an increasingly significant problem in the UK and efforts should be made to encourage interest in sport and being active. But boxing has its own significant risks to health, and as such concerted..." Show more»" Obesity is an increasingly significant problem in the UK and efforts should be made to encourage interest in sport and being active. But boxing has its own significant risks to health, and as such concerted effort should go into advertising and raising participation in other sports, where inflicting pain and injury is not the objective. Although there is less evidence of long-term health problems in amateur boxing, that does not mean there is no risk. Evidence suggests that like their professional counterparts, amateur boxers are affected by chronic brain injury, albeit to a lesser extent. The use of headgear in amateur boxing is often promotes as preventing brain injury, when in fact it only prevents superficial head damage. This could mean that boxers receive more damage to their brain than they would otherwise, for example a fight continuing to knockout, which may have been stopped earlier due to other superficial head injuries. There is also the possibility that head guards could increase the injury by presenting more angled edges to blows which then produce the classical boxing rotational acceleration effect. The only way to prevent brain damage in boxing is to either ban boxing entirely or ban blows to the head. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Sport | Email to friends | Dec 14 2007 9:23:00 AM
keithwhu asked Barry Fry: "John Terry is reputedly on 100k per week - how much do you think he's worth?"
Barry Fry answers: "Whatever somebody is willing to pay him. Football is no longer about what players should earn, it’s about what they can earn. If money wasn't the object they’d all be down here at London Road getting ..." Show more»" Whatever somebody is willing to pay him. Football is no longer about what players should earn, it’s about what they can earn. If money wasn't the object they’d all be down here at London Road getting a game, some chicken and chips dinner and a cheque for a few quid expenses! "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Sport | Email to friends | Oct 19 2007 8:02:26 AM
keithwhu asked Linvoy Primus: "What do you think motivates certain players to ask for salaries in the region of 100k per week? Surely its not that they actually need that amount to live - is it greed or status, or something else?"
Linvoy Primus answers: "A player is entitled to ask for what he likes. That doesn’t mean to say he will always get it. I think it is often a status thing as, like you say, sometimes it would be impossible to physically spend..." Show more»" A player is entitled to ask for what he likes. That doesn’t mean to say he will always get it. I think it is often a status thing as, like you say, sometimes it would be impossible to physically spend some of the amounts of money being mentioned. But there are very few players who are right at the top and asking for six-figure salaries, and those that are commanding those figures are earning for their clubs revenue significantly greater than that. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Sport | Email to friends | Oct 19 2007 8:05:11 AM