Even_Command_222BtoOlympics@voyager.lemmy.ml•Title IX is a reason why American women performed well at the Olympics, but America’s obsession with (American) football is also a reason why the men underperformEnglish
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2 months agoDepends on the event. There are a ton of well performing female athletes in track from poor African and relatively poor carribean nations. Of course, swimming is something a poor nation is not going to have success in for obvious reasons.
It’s both. These people aren’t just plucked from villages and sent to the Olympics. They train and travel all over the world to compete in qualifying events in the three years before every Olympics. A random 16-30 year old Ethiopian would still get destroyed in a 15k in a sub-national championship race with only white athletes. But yes, at the very top of the elite level genetics matter