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Originally Posted by HarryT
A question for our distinguished panel:
Why on Earth are sports like curling divided by sex? It's not a sport in which men would appear to have any inherent advantage due to physical strength, so why have separate mens' and womens' events for it? Just seems silly to me.
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speaking to the skiing events which I have some knowledge of... men are uniformly heavier and taller. these two aspects change the dynamics of a ski race ENORMOUSLY! the heavier body powers down the mountain MUCH more quickly than a lighter, smaller body.
there honestly are not very many events that men and women can compete on even ground in... any of the shooting events, but not the ones including cross country skiing, because, once again, the powerful body. other than shooting, the one event that is combined and can be competed at an equal level is the equestrian events