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To: upchuck

Yes... they “can” but the performance and statistics are completely not compatible on team sports or even individual sports like Decathalons.

No woman is going to be a full back against 400lb men.

Other sports - sure.
Golf, tennis, archery could all be coed.


29 posted on 03/04/2021 8:41:07 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Skywise
Golf, tennis, archery could all be coed.

Surely you jest.

I don't know what is involved in competitive archery today, but I have watched the serious reenactor types who are expert with medieval weaponry. I don't mean the goofball reenactors; I mean the guys who live their sport and who could probably enlist tomorrow with Richard the Lionhearted and be paid a premium for their archery skills. With combat level equipment, serious archery is definitely a strength event. Draw weight is not the weight of a pencil.

Women are as disadvantaged in golf and tennis as any other major sport.

In golf, I've often wondered if there is any differential when it comes to putting. Otherwise, however, men's greater strength yields greater distance off the tee, and the advantage compounds on every following shot. The distance advantage also changes club selection. On the putting green, men and women might be equal, but not elsewhere.

In tennis, men have a decisive range and power advantage.

53 posted on 03/04/2021 10:41:34 AM PST by sphinx
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