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dyd13 said:
And it is the physicality that counts in most sports. In football, Darlington men's team would beat the England Women's team ten times out of ten, not because the men play better/more technical football, but are more physically developed for the sport.
Even in the likes of golf and tennis for example, when the shot is executed you can often see the women are better technicians, but power is king.
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In tennis you do not see women often technically better than men.
 
dyd13 said:
And it is the physicality that counts in most sports. In football, Darlington men's team would beat the England Women's team ten times out of ten, not because the men play better/more technical football, but are more physically developed for the sport.
Even in the likes of golf and tennis for example, when the shot is executed you can often see the women are better technicians, but power is king.
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The Darlo team would also have the natural competitive aggression men have. Men, in sport and real life, often try to intimidate people whether that's mentally or physically. Playing football against women might negate that, at first, as men have a tendency to protect women. I don't think we'd see men raking their studs down a woman's calf, not at first in any case.

It would be interesting to see an entire team of transgender women play against naturally born women. My guess is that the transgender outfit would win every time if skill levels were similar.

What would be even more interesting would be transgender women against a team of transgender men.

'Women' with male genitalia against 'men' without any ...

... I'd expect the team with the biggest balls would win.
 
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samwise_new said:
i am convinced 'flo jo' was the first trans, only the long fingernails hinted at female, the voice, the shape, the running style, all said 'male' to me...the americans will have kept it quiet as it meant more medals for them.
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I think you're partially right there, but not that she was legitimately "trans". More like the steroids she was allegedly taking for a couple of years began to change her physiology and made her masculine. She then retired suddenly after one spectacular year with Olympic golds and spectacular world records (the 100m record still stands and is more than 0.25 of a second faster than most of the best "clean" female sprinters manage even today), probably because she'd have been caught sooner or later. Then died of a hear attack 10 years later, with a lot of speculation that it was caused by her doping during her athletic s career. A few American athletes of the time tried to speak out about her, including Evelyn Ashford, who basically named her as a drug cheat, but the American Olympic committee, IOC and IAAF turned a blind eye to it.
 
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C Montgomery Burns said:
I think you're partially right there, but not that she was legitimately "trans". More like the steroids she was allegedly taking for a couple of years began to change her physiology and made her masculine. She then retired suddenly after one spectacular year with Olympic golds and spectacular world records (the 100m record still stands and is more than 0.25 of a second faster than most of the best "clean" female sprinters manage even today), probably because she'd have been caught sooner or later. Then died of a hear attack 10 years later, with a lot of speculation that it was caused by her doping during her athletic s career. A few American athletes of the time tried to speak out about her, including Evelyn Ashford, who basically named her as a drug cheat, but the American Olympic committee, IOC and IAAF turned a blind eye to it.
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very good point actually...we will never really know as the americans will keep it hush hush as they do with most things.

i remember that year the russians decided not to go to america for the olympics which basically gave the green light to the americans getting a far bigger medal haul than expected, the thing that always stuck with me was the spaced out starry eyed look every american athlete had when a medal was won...i got the feeling that any drug testing was 'avoided' or kept to an absolute minimum and they knew it would not include american athletes.
 
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Interesting points about the football. I used to play for a laugh on a Wednesday. We had 18 of us and played 9 a side every week.

We were approached one Wednesday by a guy wanting us to play 11 a side against a semi professional women’s team. We said yea then found out it was the next evening. So we threw together 11 lads as it’s all we had. I played right back. We hammered them. I scored 3 myself. And I never score!! They couldn’t handle our physicality. Because we were Men!! No other reason
 
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marcusblackcat said:
Interesting points about the football. I used to play for a laugh on a Wednesday. We had 18 of us and played 9 a side every week.

We were approached one Wednesday by a guy wanting us to play 11 a side against a semi professional women’s team. We said yea then found out it was the next evening. So we threw together 11 lads as it’s all we had. I played right back. We hammered them. I scored 3 myself. And I never score!! They couldn’t handle our physicality. Because we were Men!! No other reason
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Is that one where they're given their bus fare to the ground <laugh>
 
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