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Women in Sports

Women in Sports

Date: Sep 14 2007

Themes: Sports

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The road to the playing field has been a long one for women. For a long time, women weren’t allowed to play sports at all. Then, for a time, women were allowed to play but had to wear dresses and skirts even while running!

Only since a new law in the late 1970s gave more money to women’s sports in schools have women athletes been given a fair shake in the US. Now lots of sports fans find it just as fun to watch women compete as men.

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Kevin

Kevin

Devan

Devan

Kevin:  So you know, I did my undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota and that’s where hockey is huge, and the women’s hockey team is amazing.

Devan:  Really? I didn’t even know they had women’s hockey.

Kevin:  It’s big time...women’s hockey…

Devan:  Like professional?

Kevin:  Like borderline professional. I mean, they’re really amazing. And with Title IX, I don’t know if you know that…

Devan:  Uh-uh.

Kevin:  That’s like for…It requires equal dollar amounts given to collegiate and high school female sports as well as male sports.

Devan:  That’s awesome.

Kevin:  So there’s an equal number of scholarships available to women as there are to men. It’s really brought up the level of women’s sports. It’s amazing. Like in the hockey team. You see one of their games and they’re so much fun, you know?

Devan:  Do you think that women’s sports will catch on?

Kevin:  I mean, I would like to see the WNBA be as big as the NBA, but I don’t know, the men’s has been around for a long time. But you know, the women in tennis…Women’s tennis is as popular as men’s tennis and it has been for a long time.

Devan:  Well, that’s ‘cause Anna Kournikova is a babe.

 

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Discussion

The colder parts of the United States are really into hockey. Kevin went to school in Minnesota, one of coldest places in the country, so naturally he went to some hockey games.

But interestingly, he went to women’s hockey games. Devan didn’t even know that women had hockey teams. Kevin explains that since the passage of Title IX (now known as the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act to honor the woman who wrote it), women’s sports teams have the same funding as men’s sports teams.

But will women’s sports ever be as popular as men’s? They’ve got a long way to go, and men’s sports have a head start. But in some places such as tennis, the sexes get equal attention. Devan jokes that this is only because a particular Russian tennis player is really beautiful.

Have you ever gone to see women compete? Do women play sports where you live?

 

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shimanaz

shimanaz

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

women race can be great.just give the chance to them!

07:30 PM Sep 20 2007 |

shimanaz

shimanaz

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

well I'm a professional swimmer myself ! Cool

I've been to my own friends competitions and I really did enjoy them a lot but unfortunately not further more.

 

07:28 PM Sep 20 2007 |

what_nothing

Viet Nam

From to now women always have struggled for them right. Sport is one of things. I think women like men, they can play any games, but some of sports are not suitable as football(sorcer), lifting. I can not see their  beauty when they play violent games.

03:05 PM Sep 20 2007 |

thydove

Viet Nam

well,i think that sport suit for everybody but women in sport are not as  pupular as men in sport because women's sport started later and invensment for women's sport is not much as men's sport.

02:16 PM Sep 20 2007 |

PRATHIBA

Sri Lanka

CoolYOUR LESSONS  ARE  GREAT

10:23 AM Sep 20 2007 |

michael shn

China

yep! i agree with your point!! come oooon girls!

03:28 AM Sep 20 2007 |

victor25

victor25

Moldova, Republic Of

Kurnikova is the past already, Sharapova took her place!

01:07 PM Sep 19 2007 |

pink_bella

pink_bella

Austria

I know a lot of girls in our school who play soccer and they are really good. I think women should have the same chance as men in sport because why shouldn't women play as well as men sometimes do?

09:03 PM Sep 18 2007 |

span

Jamaica

i think that women shuold invole in sport because sport is a phisical process,in a way to excerise the body.

08:58 PM Sep 18 2007 |

shitguy88

Malaysia

my new college have sport too…

but men is many than women

in basketball, i can see the woman who play basketball are more like man, who knows why?

06:10 PM Sep 18 2007 |

cedric _frimpong

Ghana

I  want to  be a  friend.

05:32 PM Sep 18 2007 |

cuneyt_333

Turkey

hı my name ıs cuneyt from turkey mail

 

08:44 AM Sep 18 2007 |

charliecao

charliecao

China

In my opinion,Women in sports  means the development of our society.Take a look at the history,we can see the role of women in society was always changing with the economic development.these days,women participate more and more in politic and other fields through man still play the dominated role in these field.Women are no longer equal to the housewife,a survey made 1 year ago in South Korea implies that girls tend to be economy indepedent,and the number of girls who get married over 30 increases rapidly 'cause they wanna make a good job or succeed in their career.of course,it's impossible to replace the role of man for women,just as in China several centuries ago,so called "mother society",'cause I'm a man,I always believe the great power of our man.uh…

02:55 AM Sep 18 2007 |

carlos alberto

Germany

I agree with arisoyseref opinion that it is a good idea to give the women the same rights as men have in sports. 

10:58 PM Sep 17 2007 |

shanie

shanie

China

Hi , Christoph07 ! You are saying 2007 FIFA , I see that too .They are all some Ladies !!!

04:27 PM Sep 17 2007 |

mimcengiz

Turkey

yeah good the lesson

09:52 AM Sep 17 2007 |

QuangGiap

QuangGiap

Viet Nam

I am living in Viet Nam. Viet Nam's girls play sport very well.  They have been achieved very much gold, silver, bronze medal in SeaGame. They tried to train and these result were perfect meritorious.How  do you think about things?

09:30 AM Sep 17 2007 |

blueemad

Israel

nice

07:34 AM Sep 17 2007 |

blueemad

Israel

nice lesson

07:34 AM Sep 17 2007 |

jacilene

jacilene

Norway

this course is simply something I really appreciate. I am learning English and I am glad I discovered it!
Jacilene

05:39 PM Sep 16 2007 |

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