Winning

Say:

A 100-metre race was run. Christina came first and Jemal came a very close second. Christina was the fastest runner in the school and did not practice for the race at all. Jemal, however, knew that Christina was the fastest in the school and last year he had come fourth, so he had practiced for one hour every night for a whole month before the race. Jemal said that he should be the winner because he had put so much more effort in to it than Christina had and he had made the greatest improvement (her time was the same as last year but his was better by almost a whole second).

Task Question:

• Who should be the winner of the race?

Nested question:

• What is it to win a running race?
• Does effort count towards who should win?
• When does effort count towards something and when does it not?

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