Why are there more men than woman in masters swimming? Everyone says that women's events always end before the men's events (and thus we have to keep that odd/even rule for pools at nationals). Is this still true? The last meet I attended there were 62 heats of women and 65 of men.
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To reply to the original question: I think that the women who are about my age (51) and older had less opportunity to participate in sport than their younger sisters as they grew up. Certainly there were exceptions, but I clearly recall the women not having, say, a track team, to be part of. I suspect that, to some degree, it was probably true with swimming as well. As a result, many women my age and older simply never developed the "habit" of athletics and many carry that over now into middle+ age.
Either that or women just have more sense then men - my wife tells me I think that.
-LBJ
To reply to the original question: I think that the women who are about my age (51) and older had less opportunity to participate in sport than their younger sisters as they grew up. Certainly there were exceptions, but I clearly recall the women not having, say, a track team, to be part of. I suspect that, to some degree, it was probably true with swimming as well. As a result, many women my age and older simply never developed the "habit" of athletics and many carry that over now into middle+ age.
Either that or women just have more sense then men - my wife tells me I think that.
-LBJ
