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The other night I had a conversation where females competing in sports came up. I mentioned that it wasn't that many years ago that women were prevented from running long distance races in the Olympics for fear their ovaries/uretus would drop out.
Can anyone lead me to confirmation of this? I really think this was the prevailing CW in the sixties.
Jill
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Here you go...
A quick Google later...
http://www.rediff.com/sports/2001/oct/03mara.htm
http://www.marathonguide.com/history/olympicmarathons/chapte...
There's no specific mention of fear of genitals dropping out, but there was an attitude that women were "too delicate" to participate in any running event over 200m long - despite plenty of evidence to the contrary!
But of course there's still gender controversy of a slightly different sort nowadays:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_verification_in_sports
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tomfordyce/2009/08/semenya_left_s...
--Ben
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Thank You
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Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)