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    Debate Notes: Sports Should Not Be Gender Segregated in The Olympics

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    The document argues that sports should not be gender segregated and provides several reasons why. It notes that events like swimming and gymnastics have different standards for men and women based on the idea that women are "too delicate" for certain activities. However, research shows there is little performance difference between boys and girls before puberty. The document also states that sports are about fostering identity, teamwork, and skills rather than gender or strength. Integrating sports could create more inclusive environments and focus on the best athletes rather than dividing them by gender.

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    The document argues that sports should not be gender segregated and provides several reasons why. It notes that events like swimming and gymnastics have different standards for men and women based on the idea that women are "too delicate" for certain activities. However, research shows there is little performance difference between boys and girls before puberty. The document also states that sports are about fostering identity, teamwork, and skills rather than gender or strength. Integrating sports could create more inclusive environments and focus on the best athletes rather than dividing them by gender.

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    The document argues that sports should not be gender segregated and provides several reasons why. It notes that events like swimming and gymnastics have different standards for men and women based on the idea that women are "too delicate" for certain activities. However, research shows there is little performance difference between boys and girls before puberty. The document also states that sports are about fostering identity, teamwork, and skills rather than gender or strength. Integrating sports could create more inclusive environments and focus on the best athletes rather than dividing them by gender.

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    Debate Notes: Sports should not be gender segregated

    In the Olympics men swim 1500m while women compete over 800m.
    Allowing women to swim 1500m would add excitement for everyone.
    Females are regarded as too delicate to swim over long distances.
    In gymnastics, while women compete in four apparatus (vault, uneven
    bars, balance beam and floor), men have six events (floor, pommel
    horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and high bar).
    According to one study, the young ladies can perform just as well in
    certain sports as their male counterparts. Women have better
    endurance.

    Researchers from Indiana University examined data from USA


    Swimming-registered boys and girls ages 6 to 19. The total data
    included 1.9 million swims between 2005 and 2010.
    The research showed no difference in swim performances among girls
    and boys younger than 8 years old. The study also found little
    difference in 11- and 12-year-olds. It was only when children started
    hitting puberty that boys started beating the girls.

    Its important to remember, however, that sports often rely on


    more than just muscle

    Sports are a place to foster the development of identity, selfesteem, social skills, collaboration, discipline and the ability to
    perform under stress, not about gender and strength.

    Sports teams have the potential to be powerfully inclusive, welcoming


    and community-forming environments. Sport is all about teamwork,
    and skills, not just about our strength. Were interested in the best
    athletes in a sport, not the best male athletes.

    University sports teams need to divest of the cult of masculinity that


    alienates other men and degrades women. They need to start making
    steps towards creating a safe environment that isn't based on
    humiliation, intimidation or pressure.

    School sport is fuelling gender prejudice in later life, an


    academic has warned.
    Research from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in
    the summer found a quarter of girls aged five to 10 had not
    taken part in any sport over in the previous month a rise of
    almost 50 per cent in five years.

    Separate research by the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation


    revealed that just over half of girls 51 per cent are put off
    physical activity by their experiences of school sport and PE
    lessons.

    If everyone trains and competes on equal terms, the biologically


    slower can up their game, and if the fast naturally rise to the top
    no one should object

    It's best to separate prepubescent girls and boys based on ability


    and cognitive development rather than gender.

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