Should women participate in Olympic sports?

[Eisenhans]

I think they should keep women from participating in Olympic sporting events as it interferes with the traditions of the Olympics being a purely male athletic event. There have been no women playing in the Olympics since it began, so why should they start now?

[Jimbo Gomez]

They also didn't have compulsory drugtesting on the athletes in Greece, shall we abolish that too?

[il ragno]

Should women participate in Olympic sports?

Why not? It's not like I'm watching.

[jcs]

There have been no women playing in the Olympics since it began, so why should they start now?
They're not starting now. There have been women competing in the Olympics for quite some time. Not sure for how long, exactly, but I recall women in Riefenstahl's Olympia.

traditions of the Olympics being a purely male athletic event
We should get rid of all non-Hellenic folk as well. Back to the roots of the tradition!!! Male partners figure skating... or maybe we should get rid of figure skating all together. After all, it's not manly, like, say... naked male wresting!

Seriously, though, what needs to change is the commercialism. I don't want to watch someone wrapped in a spandex billboard ski. The Olympic tradition has been sold to corporations.

[The Retard]

Do you think they should bring back The Heraea Games?

Olympia, the site of the men's olympics, provided an opportunity for female athletes. Every four years the Sixteen Women and other married women organized The Heraea Games for maiden competitors. Pausanias indicates these games consisted of footraces, and the maidens competed against other maidens of the same age. The maiden athletes competed in the Olympic stadium but it was shortened for them by about one-sixth of its length The Heraea Games did not have the prestige of the men's Olympic competition, but the Greeks still regarded them as a serious athletic event. The victors were well honored. Pausanias says "To the winning maidens they give crowns of olive and a portion of the cow sacrificed to Hera. They may also dedicate statues with their names inscribed on them" (Pausanias, 5.16.3).

The Ancient Greeks had many religious festivals for only one sex. They liked to thinks that men and women had different roles in life and that they were not meant to compete. The fact that the men performed naked was not a reason. Except for chariot racing and running the events for the men were pretty irrelevant for women. The question is why they were not able to do equestrian events in their own festival. eventually women did participate in the chariot races with the men.

The time of Classical Greece was a time of radical change in society but it was not a time when women gained any rights. What they got was a system of law in which they received some protection, but only in reference to the rights of their husbands or other male relatives. Women were able to participate in sports because it was a practice in the past. Society at this time was very much bound by tradition and ritual. What as different about the Greeks was that their rituals seemed so much more productive that those of other societies. Women did obtain a release from the taboos of other societies.Though they secluded themselves they obtained freedom from rituals that restricted their lives and activities in other societies.

[Donny the Punk]

Canada outscored the opposition 36-1 [in women's hockey] during its three preliminary-round games, including a 16-0 thrashing of Italy to open the tournament on Saturday.

Go chicks! :D

[Sulla the Dictator]

Canada outscored the opposition 36-1 [in women's hockey] during its three preliminary-round games, including a 16-0 thrashing of Italy to open the tournament on Saturday.

Go chicks! :D


They actually played out 36 to 1? They don't call the game after 10?

[Thomas777]

They also didn't have compulsory drugtesting on the athletes in Greece, shall we abolish that too?

Actually, yeah they should.

Performance enhancing drugs are here to stay...the genie cannot be stuffed back in the bottle...and nobody really wants it to be anyway.

Get Anabolic Androgenic Steroids, growth hormone, IGF-1, and Insulin out of sport completely, and nobody will watch it anymore.

[Sulla the Dictator]

I think they should keep women from participating in Olympic sporting events as it interferes with the traditions of the Olympics being a purely male athletic event.


Clothes interferes with the tradition of the Olympics being a nude, homoerotic event.

[Thomas777]

Clothes interferes with the tradition of the Olympics being a nude, homoerotic event.

This is a big sore point for SullatheDictator.

[O'Zebedee]

They actually played out 36 to 1? They don't call the game after 10?

They should have called it at 10 and then reshuffled the teams to make it fairer.

Well, that's, uh, what I'd do.

[Sulla the Dictator]

This is a big sore point for SullatheDictator.

Are you hitting on me?

[OVERWATCH]

If one supports the banning of women from the Olympics on the grounds of Hellenic tradition, then only Hellenes should be be allowed to participate, 99% of all events should be cancelled, and Pankration should be brought back.

[Dan Dare]

As long as synchonised swimming is within the 99% I'd be quite happy about that.

[Keystone]

Clothes interferes with the tradition of the Olympics being a nude, homoerotic event.
The men's figure skaters have to wear clothes, so that's as close as you get today.

[1-800]

Remember when B. Orr said that women were the athletic equals of men?

:rofl:

[brigadier Biggles]

the only reason i watch the olympics sometimes is because of the women.

[Blaphbee]

They actually played out 36 to 1? They don't call the game after 10?
No, that was their combined scoring against the opposition over the course of three games:

1st: I think it was 16-0 against Italy
2nd: 12-0 against some other throwaway team
3rd: 8-1 against another team, Sweden I think.

The amount of crap that is getting hurled in that team's direction is astounding. Go to cbc.ca and look for a few articles. It'll give you an idea of the shitstorm that's enveloping the team.

[Niko Bellic]

the only reason i watch the olympics sometimes is because of the women.

Nobody will ever admit it, but the ice skaters are actually judged on hotness.

[Ahknaton]

I don't see it as a problem since they compete against other women and not against men (except for a few things, like mixed doubles tennis for example).

Athleticism should be celebrated in both women and men, as long as it is acknowledged that they are not equal in physical ability in all areas. In some sports (tennis in particular), the women's events are more enjoyable to watch (leaving aside the whole "hawt chicks OMG!" aspect), because the game tends to be more about skill and taking shots, while the men's game has devolved into a simple power serve contest.

[The Retard]

They actually played out 36 to 1? They don't call the game after 10?


No, each goal counts in the Olympics incase of a tie, though I doubt Canada has to worry about it.

Here is the rule:

If points equality from mutual games of all such teams or of some teams still exist, then the goal system shall be applied. In this case, the goals scored against will be deducted from the goals scored for, and the team having the greater positive surplus or smaller negative difference will take precedence. If such teams are equal even on goal difference, then the team with the greater number of goals scored for shall take precedence.

I really dislike the rule because it's unsportsmanlike to keep hammering another team. :D

[Blaphbee]

I really dislike the rule because it's unsportsmanlike to keep hammering another team. :D
Good thing they're women! LOLLERCAUST:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[The Retard]

Good thing they're women! LOLLERCAUST:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The men have the same rule.

[Blaphbee]

The men have the same rule.
You just dissolved all the hilarity out of my statement. I hope jew're proud.

(Oh god, the Phora-lingo is seeping into my consciousness. Do I need a vacation from this forum?)