I read that the Olympics are the only place to have a men only and a female only competition. The lower levels seem to be only co-ed:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/five_ring_ci ... women.htmlUnlike many Olympic events, which use the equivalent of ladies’ tees—asking women to jump off smaller hills or skate shorter distances—male and female curlers send the same stones down the same sheet to the same house. (And they score at about the same rate. As of Thursday evening, the men and the women had each played 23 games. An average of 12.56 points were scored in the men’s games, while the women’s average was 13.08 points.)
Co-ed curling is common at the club level, but I could find few examples of elite men’s and women’s teams facing off outside of made-for-TV-type competitions. So while Internet commenters might claim that men’s superior strength means they’d always triumph in a curling battle of the sexes, there’s no entry in the record books that could confirm or deny that theory. Besides, some of the women competing in the Ice Cube this week are full-time curlers whose training regime includes a lot of strength work. According to the AP, 23-year-old Eve Muirhead, the British team captain, “spends as much time lifting weights as she does throwing rocks.”
I mean the author of the article still thinks that men only and female only teams are still a good thing but if they are using stones of the same weight then what is the point?[/quote]
Do you even watch the sport? Co-ed has strategy as to which rocks the man throws vs which one the women throw.
Men and women throw the same 16# bowling ball too but there is a reason why they don't play in the same league.
