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HEEL and TOE ONLINE the Official Organ of the Victorian Race Walking HEEL AND TOE ONLINE The official organ of the Victorian Race Walking Club 2019/2020 Number 50 Monday 7 September 2020 VRWC Preferred Supplier of Shoes, clothes and sporting accessories. Address: RUNNERS WORLD, 598 High Street, East Kew, Victoria (Melways 45 G4) Telephone: 03 9817 3503 Hours: Monday to Friday: 9:30am to 5:30pm Saturday: 9:00am to 3:00pm Website: http://www.runnersworld.com.au Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Runners-World/235649459888840 PAUL F DEMEESTER TALKS MATTERS IAAF AND IOC Thanks to US Attorney at Law Paul F. DeMeester for another insightful analysis. That is the 25 th in a row and it’s a beauty. You can see links to all Paul’s articles at the bottom of webpage http://www.vrwc.org.au/save-the-50km.shtml. ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR HUMANKIND By Paul F. DeMeester Not quite the words spoken by Neil Armstrong when he set foot on the moon in 1969, but close. I took poetic liberty to substitute “humankind” for “mankind.” We are in 2021 after all, not 1969, except maybe for some over at the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who are still using pre-2004 calendars; 2004 having been the year the Olympic Charter prohibited sex discrimination. The gender equality provisions of the Charter came into force shortly after the closing of the 2004 Athens Games. You would have thought that this meant that by 2008, the Olympics would have been gender equal. Think again. By the IOC’s own admission, women’s participation stood at 44.2 % at London 2012, rose to 45.6 % at Rio 2016 and was projected to climb to 48.8 % for Tokyo 2020. (IOC Press Release of 9 June 2017, available at https://www.olympic.org/news/tokyo-2020-event-programme-to-see-major- boost-for-female-participation-youth-and-urban-appeal; accessed on 5 September 2020.) According to the IOC, it would fall 1.2 % short of 50/50 for Tokyo 2020. One does not need 20/20 vision to see that full parity between the sexes would only require a small step for a man, in Neil Armstrong’s words. In its press release, the IOC provided a link to the full Tokyo programme (uploaded to http://www.vrwc.org.au/documents/Tokyo-2020-event-programme.pdf). The Tokyo events programme shows us where the gender deficiencies are. Of the 33 Olympic sports at Tokyo (athletics counting as one), only 9 suffer from a gender disparity. Athletics is among those 9 because of … Tim’s next trivia question … right on, the 50K Race Walk Event is for men only. Athletics is projected to have 988 male and 912 female athletes at the Tokyo Games. The other sports with gender deficiencies are: aquatics (no male synchronised swimmers and two fewer female water polo teams); boxing (206 male boxers in eight weight categories versus 80 female boxers in five weight categories); cycling (130 male road cyclists versus 67 females); football (four fewer female teams); gymnastics (no rhythmic events for men; in artistic gymnastics, men but not women compete on the pommel horse, rings, parallel bars and the horizontal bars, whereas women but not men compete on the beam); sailing (no women in Finn class); wrestling (no female Greco- Roman wrestlers); and baseball/softball (144 male players versus 99 female players). Overall, 5,704 male athletes (51.2 %) and 5,386 female athletes (48.8 %) are expected to partake at the 2020 Olympics. A perusal of these gender differences leads to the conclusion that it should be easy to close the gaps in the nine sports, at least in the numbers of athletes. Some gender differences, like in synchronised swimming or gymnastics, may have perfectly legitimate explanations that account for the differences. I will leave that for others to judge. But I will take this opportunity to say that I am not in a position to either confirm or deny the reports that Tim, your editor, and I, have been busy practicing our synchronised swimming routine in the hope of taking part in the Tokyo Olympics. The easiest of all the gender equality fixes among the 9 sports lies in the 50K Race Walk Event. It would not even require the staging of an additional event. Women could race alongside men in the 50K, as they have done at London 2012, Taicang 2018, Lima 2019, Doha 2019, in Dudince, Melbourne, Santee etc. The course is already there, as are the judges and the broadcasters. When the IAAF (now World Athletics) requested the IOC to include women in the Tokyo 50K, the IAAF made the same point: “The women’s race could be contested at the same time as the Men’s 50km Race Walk using the same course.” The IAAF further noted that this inclusion would not increase the total number of athletes at Tokyo. (IAAF Letter of 28 December 2018 by Competitions and Events Director Paul Hardy to Kit McConnell, IOC Sports Director, quoted in Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Decision No. 6225 of 3 February 2020, p. 5, ¶ 11.) The IOC response is a sheer beauty, especially in light of all the subsequent changes made to Tokyo 2020 to counter excessive summer heat (marathon and walks venues) and the COVID-19 pandemic (one-year postponement): I am sure you can understand that it is not possible to make any changes to the confirmed event programme of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 at this time, not least because of the advanced stages of the Games planning and also the precedent it would open for all other International Federations to make similar requests. As you are aware, the IOC Executive Board finalised the Tokyo 2020 event programme in June 2017 (…). (McConnell IOC Reply to the IAAF dated 15 February 2019, quoted in CAS Decision No. 6225, pp. 5-6, ¶ 12.) Let’s go over the IOC position in more detail. Women could not be included in the Tokyo 50K because “it is not possible to make any changes … not least because of the advanced stages of the Games planning ….” The IOC’s reasoning looks absolutely ludicrous, not to say ridiculous, given the changes the IOC has since made to the walks and marathon courses (moving them 800km north from Tokyo to Sapporo) and the wholesale Olympic Games postponement. The IOC’s second line of reasoning is equally without merit: “the precedent it would open for all other International Federations to make similar requests.” Sounds like the floodgates of requests, protests and litigation are about to open. Not so fast. It’s more like the IOC is crying wolf. We are only talking about eight other federations. I am not aware of a single one of those eight federations to have made a gender equality request similar to that of the IAAF. More importantly, in its letter, the IOC did not cite any such similar requests. Moreover, the worst that could happen is that the Tokyo Olympics would have to accommodate an additional 318 women athletes. A small price to pay, would you not say, to achieve the gender equality promised by the Olympic Charter as far back as 2004? We are not asking for the moon, our reference to Neil Armstrong’s words notwithstanding. We are simply asking IOC President Thomas Bach to make one small step for a man and include women in the Tokyo 2020 50K Race Walk Event. Back in his fencing days, Bach was tethered to a body cord during competitions. Let him demonstrate today that he is no longer tethered to the IOC sexism that started with its founder. We’re not asking Bach to take all the steps required to finish a 50K. A small step for a man will do. ACTRWC ROADWALKS, DICKSON, CANBERRA, SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER Thanks to Val Chesterton for this week's results from Canberra. 5km Walk 10km Walk 1. Owen Toyne 25:31 1. Ann Staunton-Jugovic 57:35 2. Kodi Clarkson 25:48 2. John Kennedy 1:03:57 3. Kate Black 33:32 3. Sue Archer 1:09:28 4. Rosemary Parker 38:27 4. Bryan Thomas 1:15:02 5. Jennifer Gilchrist 38:34 5. Jim White 1:15:47 6. Raine Thompson 47:56 6. Bob Parker 1:16:44 7. Geoff Barker 1:23:55 3km Walk 8. Val Chesterton 1:26:00 1. Peter Baker 16:55 2. Siddharth Dhawan 17:40 3. Fran Black 28:21 SARWC ROADWALKS, ADELAIDE PARKLANDS, ADELAIDE, SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER Thanks to Kim Mottrom for this week's results from Adelaide. He reports: Today we had great weather and some great times. Tristan Camilleri and Mathew Bruniges did by far their best 5km of the season, Sebastian Richards, Tarique Kamish and Nellie Langford walked big PB's too! And yes, Richard Everson did back to back races (3km first). 5km Walk 3km Walk 1. Tristan Camilleri 21:53 1. Sebastian Richards 14:23 2. Mathew Bruniges 23:53 2. Daisy Braithwaite 15:34 3. Olivia Sandery 24:15 3. Nellie Langford 15:46 4. Peter Crump 29:34 4. Richard Everson 16:07 5. Greg Metha 30:27 5. Archie Braithwaite 17:05 6. Richard Everson 30:29 6. Sam Wilks 17:08 7. Liz Downs 37:03 7. Ruby Langford 17:48 8. Stephen Downs 38:35 8. Katie DeRuvo 18:08 9. James Hoare 39:49 9. Hannah Wilks 18:10 10. Cooper Rech 18:36 1km Walk 1. Tarique Kamish 5:15 2. Orlando Grantham 5:45 3. Zahra Kamish 6:46 4.
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