As an aside to this, I’m surprised that our former Prime Minister isn’t getting as much backlash as Rowling. Liz Truss still has this post on her Twitter page.
As an aside to this, I’m surprised that our former Prime Minister isn’t getting as much backlash as Rowling. Liz Truss still has this post on her Twitter page.
The Russia example is probably influenced by state sponsored doping. Women get bigger performance gains than men from steroids (source) so a country that is doping all of their athletes will see a bigger performance increase in their female competitors.
Ted Talk here discussing why people from different parts of the world excel at different sports.
This paper also goes over it.
https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/dne-volumes/5/3/454
The anthropometric literature shows that the center of mass in blacks is 3 percent higher above the ground than in whites. This means that blacks hold a 1.5 percent speed advantage in running, and whites hold a 1.5 percent speed advantage in swimming. Among athletes of the same height Asians are even more favored than whites in swimming but they are not setting records because they are not as tall.
Making the weight as many times as needed is part of any weight controlled sport. Athletes that competed in the next weight category up may have been capable of cutting down for one day but not for the next. Awarding the medal would incentivise athletes that do not think they can medal in their usual weight category to go through unsustainable weight cuts in the hope they make the final.