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Combat Athletes Bare their Flags at Opening Ceremonies
posted by Wombat Sports
Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 4:15pm EDT
Wombat sports is dedicated to women in combat sports. Former news editor of “Fightergirls” MarQ Piocos has been covering Women’s MMA for over three years, having picked up coverage of wrestling, boxing, and grappling. It is his vision to bring some of the best coverage to help bring and promote the ever expanding popularity of women’s MMA, wrestling, and martial arts with some of the best writers and athletes.
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Ireland’s Katie Taylor
With more female athletes taking part then men this year, this will be the “Year of the Woman” at the Olympics. All 205 countries brought female athletes, which is a first.
As the countries enter the Olympic Stadium in London, 83 female athletes held their flags high leading the way. Of those women, 24 represented the combat sports. Wrestling had the strongest showing with 8 flag bearers (only one male wrestler had the honor.) Judo and Taekwondo were well represented, with Irish boxer Katie Taylor being the most popular.
Here is a breakdown of the flag bearers:
Wrestling
- Annabelle Ali – Cameroon
- Mijaín López – Cuba
- Maria Dunn – Guam
- Augusto Midana – Guinea-Bissau
- Sushil Kumar – India
- Saori Yoshida – Japan
- Nurmakhan Tinaliyev – Kazakhstan
- Sinivie Boltic – Nigeria
Judo
- Antonia Moreira – Angola
- Severine Nebie – Burkina Faso
- Carine Ngarlemdana – Chad
- Linouse Desravine[65] – Haiti
- Marie Muller – Luxembourgh
- Telma Monteiro – Portugal
- Hortense Diédhiou – Senegal
Taekwondo
- Sorn Davin – Cambodia
- Seulki Kang – Central African Republic
- Gabriel Mercedes – Dominican Republic
- Nadin Dawani – Jordan
- Andrea Paoli – Lebanon
- María Espinoza – Mexico
- Wiam Dislam – Morocco
Boxing
- Katie Taylor – Ireland
- Mavzuna Chorieva – Tajikistan
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