Women in handball
by Nicolas and Jean
Women play handball too :
The World championship took place in Denmark, from the 5th to the 20th of December 2015. The winner is the Norway who defeated the Netherlands 31-23.
The best player in the World is :
Allison Pineau.
She is French.
Allison Pineau
A little game
Women play basketball too:
The next World championship will take place in Spain in 2018. The favorites are the Americans who have already won the championship 8 times.
The best player in the World is Lisa Leslie : she's american.
Women in basketball by Nicolas and Jean
women in water sports
Ellen MacArthur
Gertrude Ederle
She was an American woman.She was the first woman who went accross the English Channel in 14 hours and 39 minutes in 1826.
Laure Manaudou
She is a French swimmer. She won three medals in 2004 on the Olympic Games. She beat several World records.
She is an English sailor. She beat the sailing world tour record solo in 2005.
INEQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION
by Nicolas and Jean
In theory women can do the same sports as men. But in real life it is wrong.
In the 19th century only aristocrat women practised sports like golf, tennis...in the first half of the 20th century women started doing sports but they were not accepted. They had to wear long costumes to cover their body. Pierre de Coubertin didn't want to let them participate in the Olympic Games because he said their place was at home with their children.
Suzanne Lenglen, 1920's
Women participated for the first time in the Olympic Games in 1900. There were 22 women and
975 men. They can play golf or tennis only. Charlotte Cooper et Margaret Abbott were the first women to win a gold medal.
Charlotte Cooper and Margaret Abbott
The working women of the second half of the 20th century did not have time to do sport.
Even today it is very difficult to enter this men's world. the female football matches or rugby matches are not on TV programmes and the media prefer sportsmen.
and the publicity on TV show more men than women. If sportswomen want to be spotted they have to wear sexy sports clothes. This is the price to pay to do competitions!
