Can a woman beat a man in swimming?

Originally posted by jswim I wish more people in this world were as mature as this! How True! You hit it on the head, descrimination against people for their gender orientation, looking different, etc.. is extremely childish behavior! well stated. :) This in itself is a testament to swimming and why everyone should admire it as the ultimate sport!.. how mature and cool all swimmers are! ah haaaaa!;) Hey thanks! Also nice quote! I sometimes can beat guys in swimming.... generally the guy who sort of half breaststrokes/half walks his way across the pool... sometimes the guy who slaps the water as if it's his enemy... sometimes the guy who sort of floats down the pool using a snorkel.... the serious swimmers--guy dept....nowhere near! But I did manage to graduate from slowest to second slowest person in my masters' group by about late May. (Since then, we've been on our own while the coach is away for the summer.) One thing I noticed: our group is (not by design) exclusively female. There was a guy, but he hurt his shoulder and had to stop--and another who was there just a couple of times. Not a lot of chances to test myself against guys, but I'm not thinking that would be a close race anyway. ;) But some of the women in that group could definitely battle it out w/ the guys.

Originally posted by jswim I wish more people in this world were as mature as this! How True! You hit it on the head, descrimination against people for their gender orientation, looking different, etc.. is extremely childish behavior! well stated. :) This in itself is a testament to swimming and why everyone should admire it as the ultimate sport!.. how mature and cool all swimmers are! ah haaaaa!;) Hey thanks! Also nice quote! I sometimes can beat guys in swimming.... generally the guy who sort of half breaststrokes/half walks his way across the pool... sometimes the guy who slaps the water as if it's his enemy... sometimes the guy who sort of floats down the pool using a snorkel.... the serious swimmers--guy dept....nowhere near! But I did manage to graduate from slowest to second slowest person in my masters' group by about late May. (Since then, we've been on our own while the coach is away for the summer.) One thing I noticed: our group is (not by design) exclusively female. There was a guy, but he hurt his shoulder and had to stop--and another who was there just a couple of times. Not a lot of chances to test myself against guys, but I'm not thinking that would be a close race anyway. ;) But some of the women in that group could definitely battle it out w/ the guys.