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#36 Lena Erdil – The Windsurfing Podcast
Lena Erdil has tried her hand at all disciplines of windsurfing and now is part of the PWA management team. In this podcast she goes back to the start and tells us how she found windsurfing and the love for slalom racing. Almost braking the women’s speed record at Luderitz was also a highlight and we hear some great stories from this period. The motivation for wave sailing ended with injury but she fighting back in the slalom and now with the IQ foil competitions. Recently her influence has helped see equal prize money come into the sport and Lena and Maciek have a good debate about all the pro’s and con’s. Lena’s knowledge and experience comes across in this compelling podcast, sit back and enjoy!!
0:00 Intro, Background
6:09 PWA debut, training and studies
15:45 3x vice champ, broken foot, training targets
20:25 Speed records, luderitz experience
30:42 Getting into and loving wavesailing
37:46 IQ Foiling experience
47:20 Equal prize money, improving opportunities for women
1:04:27 Working for Starboard
1:12:55 Sausage sponsors, being dropped by Redbull
1:21:06 Quickfire
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what a little silly girl…. such people shudnt sit on PWA management board and shape the future of competetive windsurfing
I am not in favour of this change to equal prize money in any sport. Prize money has nothing to do with gender, it only depends on the intensity of the competition. The more athletes compete to win, the higher the sporting achievement – quite simply. It’ s simple mathematics.
E.g. if there are 15 equally good athletes who all have the same chance of winning, and you divide them randomly into two groups. One group consists of 10 athletes and the other of 5. Then there is unequality, it is unfair. In the group with 5 athletes, the chance of winning is 1/5 and in the other 1/10. But both winners get the same prize money. Before the competition even begins, the expected profit is so different in the case of registration and the expected income is so different in the case of professional athletes. (consider that the result of the lottery of making these groups is given for all events of the career of each athlete)
This has nothing to do with equality. But people only see A and B and do not ask themselves why A is not equal to B, because they push themselves into a victim role and spark an emotional discussion in which only a small part of the world’s population manages to draw rational conclusions. The same prize money in all the other sports did not come about because they wanted to promote equality (which has been abolished), but because of the social pressure in today’s society. The rabble immediately cries “discrimination against women”.This is bad for the image. Not even male athletes get this point. All other arguments are weak, prize money does not drive women into sport and does not push female professional athletes. It is the competition itself, which is driven in first order by passion and not money.