Right on cue. As the world celebrates international day or month for women, Nesthy Petecio and Aira Villegas punched their tickets to Paris. Both women join Eumir Marcial in the hunt for boxing gold. Former world champion Petecio is hungrier. She narrowly missed the gold in Tokyo. But sports is tricky, treasonous even. No matter the preparation, training and sacrifice, muscle memory blurs, and the body betrays, on the day of competition. But in a good day, the first Filipina to win a boxing medal may turn her silver into gold. The man to take home the elusive boxing gold could be a woman.