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a desire to make the games equal, and changing the ball, goal, pitch size is seen as diminishing the sense of eq
this is super inetresting as a topic, lots of sports already do it. Prof Ross Tucker on a podcast recently talked about this, and World Rugby had looked into it. the survey from the players came out as pretty clearly in favour of playing with the mens rules for ball and pitch dimensions.
My view is that there is a huge survivor bias here and the people who's view points they should also consider is the girls and women who never got to excel in a sport where the conditions of the game were designed for large men first and foremost.
to butcher a quote from the pod re soccer: there was a point raised that if men played in the same average, relative conditions that women do, the ball would be as big and heavy as a basket ball.
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re soccer: there was a point raised that if men played in the same average, relative conditions that women do, the ball would be as big and heavy as a basket ball.
Maybe someone should actually do this as an exhibition game to demonstrate it? Has there been one?
(I don't mean to sound patronising, even though I probably/definitely do. I'd not thought about it in those terms. Not sure it’s required though, if the sport works as-is?)
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The Real Science of Sport podcast is great, covers some really broad topics and Ross Tucker is very good.
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It's a philosophical point in women's sport I think.
There is a desire to make the games equal, and changing the ball, goal, pitch size is seen as diminishing the sense of equality...