Talk:2007 World Aquatics Championships

Multisport or not?

In my opinion aquatics is a name to combine various sports, so this championship qualifies as a multisports event featuring swimming, synchronised swimming, diving and waterpolo. So, what I'm saying, in my opinion the multisport category should be re-added to the category list. SportsAddicted | discuss 00:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Article name

Shouldn't this article be named 2007 World Aquatics Championships, since all other FINA World Aquatics Championships follow that naming convention? Or should all the others be changed? - Ektar 20:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Officially, the event is called the "FINA World Championships", so they should probably all be changed to that. "World Aquatics Championships" is a descriptive term, although "Aquatics World Championships" might be better. The presence of both "FINA" and "Aquatics" is somewhat redundant. Hooperswim 04:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Medal Imbalance

Can someone explain to me why FINA discriminates against men by allowing there to be more medal events open to Women at their Aquatic Championships than there are for Men? Why is it that there are 7 more events at which Women can win medals as compared to the Men? Why is there such blatant discrimination allowed by FINA? I thought the introduction of Women's Water Polo was called for as a result of trying to end discrimination against Women, if that is the case - why are there still 7 events that can be contested only by Women? 155.143.221.252 05:48, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Would you like to watch Synchronised Swimming with men!? Pedroq 09:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that is the point - the point is, if there is a Sport at this World Championships reserved solely for Women - then by rights there should be a sport reserved solely for Men. Otherwise, its simply a blatant case of sexism. Can you think of 7 Medal sports that could be introduced for men to redress this sexism? As for watching male synchro swimming, I don't think that's ever going to fly - hopefully not. jkm 11:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

LOL! If that's the only reason it gets watched, it's not a sport. *cough*porn*cough* --Monotonehell 15:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Even with the women's-only sport of Synchro, men still outnumbered women at the entire FINA 2007 Worlds. The reason those 7 events exist, at least at the Olympic level, is to help bring about completely number equity at the Olympics (similar to what happens with USA colleges within the NCAA). FINA includes Olympic events at their Worlds, so consequently they are there (and incidentally, FINA's gender numbers are based off the whole Championships, and not really on a discipline-by-discipline basis for the gender comparison). Regarding men and Synchro, there have been some petitions to allow men to compete at the Olympics and Worlds in the discipline, however, these have been denied by the FINA/IOC who are "protecting" it somewhat (the USA had a male member to its 2000 Olympic Training team, who traveled to Australia and Sydney for the Games--he qualified for the USA Olympic team, but was not allowed to actually be entered on the team roster as an athlete for the Olympics).Hooperswim 04:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

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