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Virtual boxing for the WI(I)

Women’s Institute members are to battle it out at sports including boxing in a national Nintendo Wii championship.

The games console, which allows people to play each other at simulated sports, has proved a hit with WI ladies in Cornwall. Accorsing to The Sun, they were introduced to it by the Cornwall Sports Partnership as a way of keeping fit, and the CSP is now planning to hold a contest for women from all over the UK in the autumn.

Sheila Rapson, 75, the president of Gwinear Parish WI in west Cornwall, is set to enter in both tennis and boxing. She said: “I’d never even played tennis before but discovered I had a good backhand. WI members are very open to new things.”

Lis Davis, 50, added: “It’s tremendous fun. Who would have thought I would be boxing?”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .