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We've been through this before. As I recall there was some resistance from heptathletes. That is to say, the very best heptathletes wouldn't be the very best decathletes and as a group they wanted to hold on to the traditional event so they could stay at the top of their sport.
800 dude wrote:
Raising the hurdles to a proportionately higher height is certainly defensible, especially for the high hurdles. The 100/110 difference is related to maintaining a three step pattern for both sexes, but men's technique is significantly more difficult because they have to move their center of mass up over each hurdle, whereas most female hurdlers are able to maintain a relatively stable COM position.
It seems like the 100/110 hurdles should be based on height, not gender. I'm only 5'8" and could never get over 42" hurdles, but a 6'2" woman would be able to clear them much easier. She would also be able to maintain 3-steps between the hurdles better than me. But because I am a male, I need to run the 42"ers while she runs the 33"ers. Six inches taller but she runs hurdles that are nine inches shorter.
You will get taller when you hit puberty.
What happens when women try to run men's hurdles
CrispyChicken wrote:
Why aren't women required to register with Selective Service?
I absolutely, 100% agree that women should be required to participate in the draft.
Maybe they should open have the decathlon and heptathlon for women so that present heptathletes aren’t totally screwed but so that we can shift to the decathlon