The controversy at HYROX Beijing raises a bigger question: what does fairness in sport really mean? From toilet access and female physiology to adaptive athletes, extreme conditions and unequal sled lanes, fairness is more complicated than simply giving everyone the same rules.
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As a girl, Katie Taylor entered boxing competitions as “K Taylor” because girls were not supposed to fight. She would go on to help get women’s boxing onto the Olympic stage, win its first lightweight gold and prove that women could headline the biggest nights in professional boxing.
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Olympic champion. World record holder. One of the greatest swimmers of all time. Katie Ledecky has been given increasingly impressive ways to describe her. None of them seems to have interested her as much as swimming.
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