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Hopkirk | 06:19 Tue 20th Feb 2018 | Other Sports
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Why do they have separate men's and women's competitions? I can see no reason to segregate the sexes in this sport.
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It's not as if strength or size gives any advantage.
Tradition..same with bowling..mixed pair rinks do happen but clubs have men and ladies sections...golf too..
Exactly minty.
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I wonder who would win if the UK men played the UK women, or the gold medal winners played each other.
Scottish women are very very strong curling team
Indeed they are minty. Four talented girls.
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I do prefer watching the women's games.
UK girls just pulled off a cracker, helped by an error from the Japanese girl, putting UK three up going into end 7.
Me too hoppy.
UK will have the hammer in the last end.
It isn't just about size or strength. I looked it up recently because of a similar thread about Darts and it turned out due to different nosy shapes, they throw very differently (from the age of 3). So maybe that's a factor here too.
.... body shapes. Autocorrect lol.
Women are usually more precise in sport so I would take them to win
Are there any sports where men and women compete equally. I am thinking something like shooting or archery ?
Both of those eddie.

I was amember of a shooting club, women competed on equal terms with the men, and held their own!
In rowing women are allowed in the open category but men are not allowed in the women's. In practise this very rarely happens
They had a mixed doubles competition for the first time this Olympics.
They have separate teams because the women have an unfair advantage........They are better sweeper ups. (^_*)

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