The X account Track Spice wrote: "A female D1 track star Alahna Sabbakhan raced a man who insisted he could beat her. The result is going viral" - but the reason it's going viral is because some random guy from his couch put up a good race against a woman who's in great shape and a great runner. Now imagine if this was a D1 MALE track star? The guy would defeat her easily.
Some context... if you search her best times: Alahna Sabbakhan boasts a personal best of 54.67s in the women's 400m, which she ran at the 2023 ACC Outdoor Championships on May 12, 2023, at the Paul Derr TF Facility, Raleigh, in the USA. She registered a best timing of 2:05.74 in the women's 800m at the Rector Fieldhouse, Blacksburg, on February 6, 2022
Now if you search for top college male runners, their time is almost 20 SECONDS FASTER. FloTrack reported that a former college runner named Brandon McBride, from Mississippi State, ran a 1:46.07 PR. So basically, Sabbakhan comfortably beat a guy who isn't even a track star, which makes this video going viral just look stupid. It's like me playing tennis against Serena Williams. Of course she would probably beat me. She's a trained tennis star, but can she beat the men? That was answered years ago and the answer is NO. There was a German guy who was ranked 203rd and he beat BOTH Serena Williams and Venus Williams back-to-back at the 1998 Australian Open. That man is the infamous Karsten Braasch.
Can we stop talking about men and women being equals in sports? They are not equal and men do not belong in women's sports. End of story.
