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Men don’t belong in women’s sport

Men don’t belong in women’s sport

17 June 2023

9:00 AM

17 June 2023

9:00 AM

Olympic leaders say there’s no such thing as male advantage in sport. Here’s a simple question for them: if that were true, why not just scrap sex-based categories of men and women altogether?

We all know why. Men run faster, jump higher and are stronger than women. In my sport of swimming, men are on average 11 per cent quicker than women.

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