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How indigenous women revolutionized Bolivian wrestling

  • Written by Nell Haynes, Assistant Teaching Professor, Georgetown University

Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world’s oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold.

And even then, they’ve done so while facing tremendousdiscrimination and resistance from organizers, other wrestlers and fans.

This is certainly true in competitive Olympic forms of wrestling. But it’s also been the case for...

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