Skirts or shorts, your choice ladies!

Women boxers will have the choice of wearing skirts or shorts in the ring at this year’s London Olympics, the sport’s world governing body said last night.

A spokesman for the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) said the executive committee would vote “in the next few days” on the proposed solution to what has become a controversial issue.

AIBA president Ching-Kuo Wu of Taiwan told a world conference on women and sport in Los Angeles on Saturday that female fighters would not be forced to wear skirts.

“Some women want to wear shorts and some want to wear skirts,” he said. “So the decision we have made is that we shall make it optional because many boxers are undecided.”