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Is Australia’s 2021 Olympic Games athletics team representative of fair World Athletics gender qualification standards? : Comments

By Chris Lewis, published 16/7/2021

Women make up 53.5% of the Australian Olympic team. Is this affirmative action gone rogue, or a fair representation of the preformance of the sexes?

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Let’s not forget the shooting sports where women often do better than the men,
I regularly compete against women in pistol matches.
Posted by Is Mise, Friday, 16 July 2021 6:52:17 PM
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Good one Is Mise, & I suppose archery could be another. There are probably a few others I don't know enough about to know. The more the better in my view.

Interestingly when my grandson was about 9, & started riding horses, he asked his mother, "How come all the girls riding horses are so pretty?" Out of the mouths of todays babes. It never occurred to me to even wonder if a girl was pretty or not until my late teens, just a late developer I guess.

So to any lonely blokes out there, get a horse & some lessons, then join a riding club. You can probably get yourself a pretty girl, provided you don't mind playing second fiddle to a horse.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 16 July 2021 9:13:20 PM
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Hasbeen,

Fencing is another sport where women can compete on an equal footing, I must admit that I initially took up that sport because of the pretty girls; one soon realised that these same girls knew how to defend themselves, fortunately I caught on without having to get a personal demonstration.
The reaction time of a trained sword fighter is very fast.
Posted by Is Mise, Friday, 16 July 2021 10:07:29 PM
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