Puzzleheaded_Beat_73BtoOlympics@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 agoYep, was going to post the same and found your point.
Its a combination of poverty and conservatism, but mostly poverty.
Many ignore how important is childhood nutrition for one to become a elite world-class athlete. There are like of Pele that is pure genius, but for majority its not. World class athletes are build from the childhood.
So probability of one come up is very rare and take long time. In such environment, boys tend to get more opportunity to continue while the threshold for girls are much higher.
That is not “sport”, that is “genetics”.
“Ethiopian highlands” people are specially build for long distance running. So is small parts of western africa, all the US, Jamaican sprinters have traces to a small region in west africa.
Then the people around caucasian mountains for strend sports such as weightlifting, boxing and wrestling. Since those are mostly poor countries, only men comes from those region to olympic level.