Mixed teams could it/ will it happen

Murph said:
It's nonsense mate. Triathlon is an endurance sport, going off the times from the last Olympic's the winner of the Women's race would have finished next to last in the Man's race.
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Yeah agreed, that’s probably why urban genie stopped replying, I don’t think he was aware that he included examples where men ran further distances or threw heavier frisbees.
 
mexico1970 said:
To be more precise there is the fallback of competing in the women only events if they get knocked out of the male competitions, snooker for example has a womens world champion who has won the title 12 years in a row but hasn't made an impact at all in the mens game, same for darts really. If we remove the female versions of sports and just allow all people regardless of gender to compete against each other they we are left with men winning most if not everything in sight.
If we genuinely want to see sport mixed and for that mixing to herald in a new meritocracy then we have to just have a world championship of any sport and none that only one sex can enter in to.
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It has been recorded in athletics swimming and weightlifting, that all women’s World Records are only at around 90% of all men’s World Records (they vary from around 88%-92%, with a mean and a median of just about 90%).

In that 10% difference are many many male athletes swimmers and weightlifters who have times or weights above the women’s WR that would mean if the sports were mixed no women would ever even qualify for heats in any tournaments and would be competed by men only.

No matter how much equality people want, physically (size, speed, strength, power, spring, endurance, VO2 max, anaerobic threshold etc.) and most probably skilfully, speed of thought and proprioception... there would just be far too many top level men in any sport for women to break in.
 
Never , i do now watch the higher profile women games , there are some very clever an skilful players but their is a vast difference in the physicality between mens and womens football , not putting womens football down , it used to be a slow and ponderous spectacle but it has improved ten fold in recent years and is a decent watch at times.
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
Is there any sport where women would beat men? For football no woman's team would beat any professional man's team. That being the case there's no argument for mixed teams.
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the talisman said:
Half an hour? Does that include dinner and a few drinks? :-)

I still can’t agree with you, men are put together differently and are more suited to physical activity and will out perform women in strength, speed and endurance.
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To be fair there are few activities that women are much better at from a “physical” perspective. One example, interestingly enough for both in-cockpit and drones, is piloting aircraft, particularly combat aircraft.

And there are a few sport where they are equal to men currently (or are catching up now). They are mostly time/distance sport, rather than direct competition sport, of course.

I am not saying football is yet one of them, but men don’t necessarily dominate every physical activity.
 
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