With the advent of Libby Lenton's 51.91 WR in the 100m free. I propose a swim off and battle of the sexes.
Paul "the evil" Smith (45) representing Bobby Riggs
vs.
Libby Lenton (20) as Billie Jean King.
My money rests on the female.
John Smith
To answer the question, of course a woman CAN do it. It depends on who is swimming and what event it is.
Hypothetical experiment: if you took a set of fraternal m/f twins (thats about as close as you can get), they went through exactly the same training, did the same meets, same events, etc., the guy is BIOLOGICALLY supposed to beat the gal.
The rest of the time, its just two different swimmers, probably about the same level, gunning for it. Case in point: the ongoing battle of Muppet vs. SwimmieAvsFan in the 200 back. She's been swimming pretty much year round for 18 years with a heavy concentration in back and free. I started taking swimming seriously at age 16, first full year of swimming was in 2003, mostly freestyle and fly. Back to the 200 back head to head, I am 1-2 LCM, 1-0 in SCM and 0-1 SCY. She also routinely beats me at the end of a 100 free descend set in practice.
and NO, I did not "let her win" any of those.
ps - this post is NOT meant to be interpreted as or spawn any loveydovey mush crap - it is just an example
To answer the question, of course a woman CAN do it. It depends on who is swimming and what event it is.
Hypothetical experiment: if you took a set of fraternal m/f twins (thats about as close as you can get), they went through exactly the same training, did the same meets, same events, etc., the guy is BIOLOGICALLY supposed to beat the gal.
The rest of the time, its just two different swimmers, probably about the same level, gunning for it. Case in point: the ongoing battle of Muppet vs. SwimmieAvsFan in the 200 back. She's been swimming pretty much year round for 18 years with a heavy concentration in back and free. I started taking swimming seriously at age 16, first full year of swimming was in 2003, mostly freestyle and fly. Back to the 200 back head to head, I am 1-2 LCM, 1-0 in SCM and 0-1 SCY. She also routinely beats me at the end of a 100 free descend set in practice.
and NO, I did not "let her win" any of those.
ps - this post is NOT meant to be interpreted as or spawn any loveydovey mush crap - it is just an example
