Loinclothslave
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My wife reckons athletes should be naked, guess she’s of the Greek School on that
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Question about track and field competions
- Thread starter Gibbs505
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I think a matter of street traffic. Maybe, only why Uncle Sam do things other as John Bull.
old slave
FELIS RESPICIENS
Maybe in USA, but in UK it is random, two of the Queen's favourite courses are Ascot and Epsom, former clockwise, latter anti-.
twonines
LIMERICUS
That is what I have always believed to be the reason.Sorry, but the sources I've found say that it's because it's easier for righties to run counterclockwise and 80% of people are righties.
Why are Races Run Counterclockwise?
It's believed to be easier for righties, who make up the majority of world population, to run in a counterclockwise motion.www.livescience.com
windar
Teller of Tales
When Stan Goldman was in the UK with @Barbaria they went to the races. He thought the horse he had bet on was winning enough to pay her lunch bill at the Dorchester until he realized which way they were running!
dfg42
Senator
They can dress so sexy, because they can run faster than we two...... But remember sports dress are allways sexy as you see here
about 1930
oh here the sister of miss Braun
hm swimming wear that time were a little revealing
so that might be the YMCA did not use them ,,,,, how is running that time? 
Lina Radke... Okay not that sexy, so the sexy dresses are not in running. I remember when I played volley ball in 1980is in my team was a female with short green short made from terry in- that was very arousing to stand behind her... I then developed my future as trainer of the female Brazilian beach volley team, but my bad fate was against that wish.
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Deleted member jedakk
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This reminds me of the Chinese track they laid out with square corners instead of curves - China sports officials cut corners by creating a rectangular running track | Daily Mail Online
windar
Teller of Tales
This says the MAJORITY were counter-clockwise.
How Ancient Roman Chariots Were Kept From Crashing
Maybe in Israel they went the other way to accommodate the sponsor's right to left banner
dfg42
Senator
Yes! Because it is on the south hemisphere! The other are on the north hemisphere.
Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
And do you think cars in the southern hemisphere will get faster if they go counterclockwise? Probably because of the earth's rotation (see the reverse direction of rotation of vortices)
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
But Australian circuits go clockwise, nevertheless.
twonines
LIMERICUS
I don`t know about race courses, but athletic races are always anti-clockwise.
There are many suggestions, some I think more likely than others, in this discussion:
One interesting contribution says:
Contemporary illustrations show that when running on tracks was revived in the nineteenth century, clockwise running was probably just as common. Oxford and Cambridge universities ran clockwise - Oxford until 1948, Cambridge until some time later. The first modern Olympic Games in Athens (1896 and 1906) and Paris (1900) used the clockwise direction, but in 1906 there were complaints, as many countries had by then settled for the anti-clockwise practice. From 1908 the Games have all been run 'left hand inside'.
One suggestion that hasn't come up here is that if you're running anti-clockwise, centrifugal force works to help blood flow through the heart, if you're running clockwise it hinders it. I've no idea whether there's any merit in that.
One interesting contribution says:
Contemporary illustrations show that when running on tracks was revived in the nineteenth century, clockwise running was probably just as common. Oxford and Cambridge universities ran clockwise - Oxford until 1948, Cambridge until some time later. The first modern Olympic Games in Athens (1896 and 1906) and Paris (1900) used the clockwise direction, but in 1906 there were complaints, as many countries had by then settled for the anti-clockwise practice. From 1908 the Games have all been run 'left hand inside'.
One suggestion that hasn't come up here is that if you're running anti-clockwise, centrifugal force works to help blood flow through the heart, if you're running clockwise it hinders it. I've no idea whether there's any merit in that.