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The Good Fight

Originally Published: April 17, 2017
By Photography by Craig F. Walker

Since her childhood spent in the medieval city of Gliwice, Poland, Aleksandra "Ola" Magdziak Lopes has been good at nearly everything she has put her mind, and body, to. Tennis, horseback riding, track and field, English as a second language, wrestling. So when, in her early 20s, she visited a local Massachusetts boxing gym to get back into shape, she was both fascinated and frustrated by just how difficult it was.

"This was the first thing in my life that challenged ...

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