Can competitive sport be truly fair?

Short & Curly

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Philosophy, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 March 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

When you dive into the pool at the school swimming carnival, how fair is the race? You might all start swimming at the same time, but what things give you an unfair advantage over other competitors?

You might have access to great coaches, great equipment and great healthy food.

Are these good things fair or not?

We are joined by Liz Ellis, the three time world champion former captain of the Australian netball team, the Diamonds.

Also appearing is Joseph Winter, the head of Innovation, Research and Development at the Australian Institute of Sport.

Basically, he gets to develop all kinds of cool high performance gadgets and clothing.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys, I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
0:03.3	When Molly was growing up, she dreamt of one day being a great athlete,
0:07.6	taking on the world's best swimmer, Michael Phelps,
0:10.6	or bolting past Australian Olympic champion hurdler Sally Pearson.
0:14.2	But so far, well, she hasn't even been able to beat me yet.
0:18.7	So here's some competitive advice, Molly.
0:23.2	I believe I can win.
0:28.2	When you're on that start line, you have to contend with your nerves. It's going to be very tough. It's going to be very tough. In the block, you begin in the crouch position with a back
0:33.4	knee on the ground and all the weight resting onto the fingertips. Here we go!
0:38.3	Take your arm.
0:39.3	Get set.
0:40.3	It's the time when you have to clear your mind and listen solely to the gun.
0:49.3	By the 30 meters beat in full flow and hurtling down the track to the finish line.
0:56.2	Horpher's coming through very strongly.
0:58.3	Well, Pearson gets it, I think, from Harper, and it's 1235.
1:03.0	It's a new Olympic record.
1:04.3	It was so cold.
1:08.1	Get out of my way, man.
1:10.0	Dude, chill out.
1:11.3	I'm going to win. Totally going to beat you this time.
1:13.7	It's just a fun race between friends.
1:16.1	Yes, almost it.
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