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The shooting competition got split into gendered competitions after the first woman won in 1992; women were then banned from competing in the formerly mixed eve
by bobthepanda 2y ago
The shooting competition got split into gendered competitions after the first woman won in 1992; women were then banned from competing in the formerly mixed event until 2000 when a separate women’s event was organized. https://olympics.com/en/news/zhang-shan-the-only-female-shooter-to-win-gold-in-a-mixed-competition https://olympics.com/en/news/zhang-shan-the-only-female-shoo...
- yieldcrv 2y agoway to go Zhang Shan, that seems tangentially relevant to the statement. Its own independent issue about the subsequent split, not changing anything about my statement in a scatterplot of all absolute records, and nothing to do with whether a statement in 1869 was misogyny.