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Fair Play first
Good to see man proved his potency after all
"Man proved his potency" - PMSL ! Ever so slightly sexist......
Good to see man proved his potency after all
Extremely sexist!! Care to put your life on the line for the best European male player v Chen mein, sun yinsha or wang manyu?!!
Don’t forget this was Chinese mens v womens. I highly doubt man’s potency would be proved if it was a player from any other nation!!
care to put your country’s best player against the Chinese women to prove his potency??!!
I’m going to stick my neck out here (at the risk of getting it chopped off) and suggest that there is a little “lost in translation” going on here.
The whole “men vs women” thing in sports is one of the most annoying topics in the whole of sport (foot stomping included! 😂)
Table Tennis is MUCH closer due to the nature of the sport, but mens biological advantage is still evident at the top of the sport.
More power and more speed are there for all to see. I don’t know why it needs to be some sort of sexist conspiracy?
It’s much more of a divide in other sports. Like the whole McEnroe/Serena thing…… The greatest Woman’s tennis player of all time would absolutely struggle against a man in the top 500 (at least). Having a serious conversation about it just does the Woman’s sport a disservice IMO.
The same can be seen in Football (soccer). I think the Australian Woman’s team were utterly destroyed by a boys under 16 team……
You have good and bad sports for both men and women, but I think Table Tennis is one of the rare sports where the viewing quality of both is superb, and there doesn’t need to be this comparison that Women can beat Men or Men can beat Women.
Absolutely agree and take the Chinese women out of table tennis and yes there would be a big gap between the men and women but purely from the sport of TT and including the Chinese women the gap isn’t as great specially Chinese women v none Chinese men.
im from uk and I can’t say pitchford is superior to the Chinese women.
but in sport in general yes I agree with your comments. I certainly wouldn’t put the best female boxer against Mike Tyson 😳