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Ask Lucy Charles anything (sort of)
Hey Roosters - I'm working on a feature about Lucy Charles for an upcoming issue of Triathlete. It'll be the longest article they've ever published, Lucy is super awesome, and I couldn't be more excited about it.
I'm trying to frame the article on her relationship with water throughout her life...how it's evolved, when the love affair started, hard times in the marriage, etc. Lucy and I both have swimming backgrounds, and we can have pretty geeked out conversations about little nuances of swimming. I'm trying to get a sense from non-swimmer types (i.e. 99% of triathletes) what they'd like to know from Lucy about her swim. So that's why I'm out here crowd-sourcing my work. If you could ask Lucy anything about her swim/relationship with the water, what would it be?
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So, if uber swimmers really support this statement that the open water stroke is different...... is it already modified to be good in terrible seas, or is a Lucy Charles adapting on the fly. I'm not talking just breathing to one side when you're getting mouthfuls.
If this is stupid, you can answer it here anyway and tell me its stupid.
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Hardest/longest workout she remembers doing?
Kind of wish I was Canadian. Sorry.
Clay Richard Gasway
King of all Mediocrity
Clay Richard Gasway
King of all Mediocrity
Endorsements are a trickier area, because they’re more shrouded in mystery and it’s harder to compare “equal” athletes the way it is with prize money (4th place woman at race X is the same as 4th place man at race X, simply put, but how do you compare more broadly?)
I could be WILDLY off base on this, but I *suspect* triathlon is at least better/closer to equal on this since sponsorships are still driven strongly by participation numbers rather than spectators, so there’s not the fallacy that cycling, basketball, and most other sports use of the women being less competitive or talented or whatever else BS old guys in suits come up with.
I'm fascinated to see what will happen with the US women's national soccer team suing their federation for equal pay. Talk about a sport that's stuck in the dark ages.