Go girl! Women pushing to close sporting gender gap

Kate Kelland – Reuters Canada – Wednesday, 08 August 2012 (originally published 03 Aug)

China’s Ye Shiwen poses with her gold medal after winning the women’s 200m individual medley final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre July 31, 2012. Image: REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) – The phenomenal speeds reached by the teenage Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen at the 2012 Olympics are raising questions about whether the gap between men and women in sport may one day disappear.

Women first took part in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, four years after the first Games of the modern era in Athens.

But women have not always been allowed to compete in all the sports at all the distances that men tackle . . .

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