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To: Bridge Player who wrote (95773)1/18/2005 8:39:34 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 793843
 
Do let us know when any elite female [anything athletic] kicks the booty of any elite male [anything athletic] in the same competitive sport. I would hazard a guess it might be quite a while as long as the same criteria is used to define "elite" for both genders.

I would imagine it is most likely in a sport that focuses on finesse and skill rather then power. Women can be just as dexterous, agile, flexible (in fact I think on the average they are more flexible), and skilled as men. They could compete in sports or activities like fencing and shooting and archery and bowling, perhaps in light touch stop point martial arts sparring.

In the major professional sports you might eventually see a woman as a specialist like a place kicker (particularly on a team that is willing to keep a kickoff specialist or who's punter does kickoffs).

Even in finesse and precision oriented sports (or at least most of them) they have two disadvantages.

1 - In some sports that are more finesse oriented power still is an advantage even if not as much of one.

and

2 - In most sports of any kind there are more men competing, so you have a bigger pool of players from which to pick the elite, and you have more resources put in to developing talent.

#2 is declining as a factor except perhaps in the more power oriented sports (where women are unlikely to compete on an elite level anyway), but it is still a factor.

Tim
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