Commonwealth Games

Inwood said:

Anybody watching them over there in USA? Or continental Eurpoe? Melbourne
is hosting some great swimming.
Pauline

I am in Australia, but I caught a segment last night. What I noticed was
that the worlds fastest swimmers are swimming only as fast as someone
can walk.

Why do humans want to compete in an activities that they're basically no
good at?

Sylvia.

Sylvia Else said:

Inwood said:

Anybody watching them over there in USA? Or continental Eurpoe? Melbourne
is hosting some great swimming.
Pauline

I am in Australia, but I caught a segment last night. What I noticed was
that the worlds fastest swimmers are swimming only as fast as someone
can walk.

Why do humans want to compete in an activities that they're basically no
good at?

Sylvia.

Oh I agree! Why, in fact, do we even bother having events for women and
children? Useless the lot of 'em.

--Mike

if we only competed in things we were good at, there would not be any
challenge

Sylvia Else said:

Inwood said:

Anybody watching them over there in USA? Or continental Eurpoe? Melbourne
is hosting some great swimming.
Pauline

I am in Australia, but I caught a segment last night. What I noticed was
that the worlds fastest swimmers are swimming only as fast as someone
can walk.

Why do humans want to compete in an activities that they're basically no
good at?

Sylvia.

I'm an Aussie viewer. The most amazing thing I've noted is the
incredible strength of the Aussie women's team compared to the woeful
performance of the Aussie men's team. Last night they had the men's
200m backstroke, and Australia didn't even have a swimmer who
qualified!

Inwood said:

Anybody watching them over there in USA? Or continental Eurpoe? Melbourne
is hosting some great swimming.
Pauline

Michael Edey said:

Sylvia Else said:

Inwood said:

Anybody watching them over there in USA? Or continental Eurpoe? Melbourne
is hosting some great swimming.
Pauline

I am in Australia, but I caught a segment last night. What I noticed was
that the worlds fastest swimmers are swimming only as fast as someone
can walk.

Why do humans want to compete in an activities that they're basically no
good at?

Sylvia.

Oh I agree! Why, in fact, do we even bother having events for women and
children? Useless the lot of 'em.

--Mike

I have from time to time wondered about dividing events into categories
of people in that way.

If we have an event for women, because there is no woman who can compete
with the best man, then why not have, say, an event for slow people -
those who can't run as fast as the faster people.

The vast majority of people cannot win in these competitions not because
of the sex chromosome they were born with, but because of all the
other genes they inherited. It's all a matter of chance. Why treat a
person's sex as being a special marker?

Sylvia.

Colin Priest said:

if we only competed in things we were good at, there would not be any
challenge

Of course there would. We'd be competing in things that other people
were good at too.

Swimming is a particular example were people compete at something
they're not good at, because the people they're competing with are not
good at it either.

Sylvia.

Inwood said:

Anybody watching them over there in USA? Or continental Eurpoe? Melbourne
is hosting some great swimming.
Pauline

Of course, if any event is won by someone other than an Australian,
there's little chance of hearing about it on the news here in Australia.

Sylvia.

Sylvia Else said:

Inwood said:

Anybody watching them over there in USA? Or continental Eurpoe? Melbourne
is hosting some great swimming.
Pauline

Of course, if any event is won by someone other than an Australian,
there's little chance of hearing about it on the news here in
Australia.

Just as it should be.

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Sylvia Else said:

Inwood said:

Anybody watching them over there in USA? Or continental Eurpoe?
Melbourne is hosting some great swimming.
Pauline

Of course, if any event is won by someone other than an Australian,
there's little chance of hearing about it on the news here in
Australia.

Just as it should be.

Well at the last count - just to keep you Aussies informed if your own press
don't - if you add together the GB nations (England and Scotland mainly)
gold medals in swimming for the men and the women, they have more than the
Aussies do! Just check out the 4x200 men's free relay - England gold and
Scotland silver - what depth in British swimming now! Watch out for Ross
Davenport for the future - wonderful swimming in the individual 200 free for
gold and in the last leg of the 200 free relay.

Pauline