A female boxer has been banned from the ring - because of her breast implants.

Sarah Blewden, a 25-year-old former model from Dorset, England, told the Daily Mail that boxing officials feared that repeated blows to her chest would 'damage her breast tissue'.

She began boxing two years ago to keep in shape but decided she had a real talent for it.

So, she applied to the British Amateur Boxing Association with the idea of competing in the 2012 London Olympics.

But when the association found out that she had the implant surgery in 2003, it denied her request to fight.

Blewden, who runs a hair salon, termed the decision 'ridiculous' and said she would be happy to pay for corrective surgery to repair any damage to her 32Cs.

'My surgeon said they make me no more vulnerable than any other woman,' she said.

'They are not enormous ones - they are in proportion. They are gel implants and not liquid, so they won't burst.'

Women's boxing is not an Olympic sport but Tessa Jowell, Britain's Olympics minister, wants to change the rules to open all events to both sexes for London 2012.

This article was first published in The Sunday Times.