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She didn't win the 'Male' trophy, she won the winner's trophy and the 'First Female' trophy.
by jonwinstanley 7y ago
She didn't win the 'Male' trophy, she won the winner's trophy and the 'First Female' trophy.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoThe whole article is confusing. > Unfortunately, while there was an award made for the first place female, there was no award prepared for the first place male. Instead, there was only a trophy for the overall winner, which was predicted to be a man. What the heck? This confusing logic is all throughout the article.
- mkl 7y agoThose sentences make complete sense to me. What's the problem?
- reportgunner 7y agoYeah wtf is a "male" trophy ?
- drakonka 7y agoThe same thing that the "female" trophy (which they had) is, but for the first male...
- tux1968 7y agoNo, there is no male trophy. If there were it wouldn't have been given to a woman, it would have been given to the fastest male (even though he didn't come first). There is a winner trophy, and a fastest-female trophy. She won both.
- castis 7y agoI believe thats what drakonka is saying.
- reportgunner 7y agoWhy didn't the first male (i.e. second person to finish) get it then ? (if it was a male trophy). I don't think it was a male trophy per se, just the organizers expected a male to win.
- drakonka 7y agoIt wasn't a male trophy, that's the point. I was replying to the commenter who asked "Yeah wtf is a "male" trophy ?" with an answer to what "a 'male' trophy" would be if they had one.
- maaaats 7y agoThe issue is that the man didn't get a trophy for winning his class. Most times, that's the overall trophy, and then there's an additional one for the fastest woman. So the article is clear enough, I think, given that most runners know this already. Edit: I haven't commented on if I think this is a good thing or not, just explaining the article.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoYeah I had to read other comments to get that. It wasn't clear to me because I just figured there was only 1 trophy period, the way it's written it says there's only one overall trophy negating the previous sentence. English isn't my first language so maybe I'm just getting lost somewhere.
- gwd 7y agoThere isn't, and shouldn't be a "male" class. There's a "human being" class, and a "human beings without the testosterone gene" class. The only reason to have the second class is because only half of the human population has the "testosterone" gene (aka the Y chromosome), and the other half still like to run. If you can win the "human being" class without needing the testosterone gene, more power to you.
- PunchTornado 7y agotestosterone doesn't matter at all in ultra endurance competitions.
- castlecrasher2 7y agoI don't know enough about the subject to say you're wrong but I'm inclined to given what I know about testosterone's effects on physical development, and I can imagine having stronger muscles means better or longer running. Do you have evidence that testosterone and its effects on muscle development have no effect in such competitions?
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- simonh 7y agoIt sounds pretty straightforward. There was a trophy for fastest woman and a trophy for fastest runner. Since she was fastest overall she won both. There wasn't a trophy for fastest man. The organisers just seem to have assumed that the fastest runner overall would be a man, so they didn't think a fastest man trophy was necessary.
- swebs 7y agoThis is pretty common among all professional sports. There is a standard league and a female-only league. Women are free to compete in the standard league, but it's just very uncommon for them to win, which is why the female-only leagues were created in the first place.
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- DanHulton 7y agoThis is the point of the quotes around the word "Male". It's not for emphasis, it's to show that there's another layer of interpretation at work.
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