Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Title IX regulations hurt Olympic athletes

People watch the Olympics, and a lot of outstanding female athletes, and assume that Title IX helped them. But this column says that the USA is getting fewer medal because of Title IX, and wrestling great Dan Gable details
what a disaster Title IX has been:
A recent presidential commission heard testimony detailing the damage that the current Title IX regulations have strewn on America's college campuses. UCLA's swimming team, with scores of Olympic medals, gone. The University of Miami diving program, which produced Greg Louganis, axed. Kent State Hockey, no more. U. Mass gymnastics, hang 'em up. Consider what happened to Kevin Bracken, member of the 2000 Olympic team. His senior year Illinois State University, rather than add a women's program, dropped its wrestling team.

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