aaronuprightBtoOlympics@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 agoAgreed. The drop off in womens sports is immense. The top ten to twenty players might be as skilled in reletive terms as their male collegues. But after that the level drops. The 100 ranked player in mens is often still a professional. In womens it regularly is some housewife or college kid.
Note the several recent examples of “average person makes Olympics via a loophole” in the last 30 or so years have all been women. Men not so much.
In developing countries, top earning female athletes tend to be in sports which either have mass following (cricket in the subcontinent, tack and field in East Africa) or are generational medal prospects in their sports who get a lot of support for that reason.