Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them."
It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.
It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.
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https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/womens-football-banned-england-50-years-fa-world-cup-history
"Both women's actions were crucial in challenging the prevailing prejudices and misconceptions about women's athletic capabilities."
Bonus: the mostly-unrelated embedded video about Jason Brown and figure skaters' mental health is great too.
And would you really see male and female figure skaters today compete together? Really? Or in Tennis? https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,543962,00.html
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Nature-Boundaries-Outdoors-Personal/dp/1784742899
https://www.businessinsider.com/women-are-faster-long-distance-runners-estrogen-2020-1
https://www.history.com/news/billie-jean-king-wins-the-battle-of-the-sexes-40-years-ago
very intimidating starting post-school age otherwise
(He too is regularly beaten by women fencers; he came home enthusing about someone who beat him in a new club last week - “She was brilliant!”)
Then a few team sports (indirect competition okay?)
It’s very weird.
"Yeah, I lost. That horse was something else."
Not sure about the sport as a whole being segregated because of this but her contract was cancelled not too long after.
In his defense, he was a redneck POS.
...buuut, pretty sure the reason that it was scheduled is bc the governing body was segregating every event, so... mixed bag
Same thing happened in computing industry, because men thought pecking in to keys is for chickens, and then women computer scientists landed on the Moon. Guys kicked them since then. Computer science was suddenly a guy's job PUNCHING THE CODES!