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On the other hand the women 100 m world record has been the same for almost 40 years now ( 36, to be more precise), I don’t see how anyone could improve on that

On the other hand the women 100 m world record has been the same for almost 40 years now ( 36, to be more precise), I don’t see how anyone could improve on that by a wide margin in the next 40 years.

User23 2y ago
Improvements in womens’ sprint times ceased the same time drug testing got good enough to catch all the androgens then in use. Today’s women doubtless could beat those records with modern gear and pharmaceutical enhancements.
trte9343r4 2y ago
Include transgender athletes and record improves a lot. There is no reason why women should be slower than males.
- wiseowise 2y ago
  Your solution to improving women records is to bring biological males?
  - trte9343r4 2y ago
    Not to "bring", they are already there! Just stop discrimination!
- Moomoomoo309 2y ago
  So, you're making a very particular point, in such a way that it is easy to misunderstand. Normally, just saying "women" or "men" is fine, but in this instance, sports generally refer to biological sex, not social gender, because biology discriminates. Individuals with biological male sex have higher bone densities, more ability to gain muscle, tend to be taller, larger, etc. "Women", as in gender, not sex, should not be slower, this is true, but "women", as in sex, will be slower due to biology. The physical disparity is not a social issue, it's biology; the social component can be argued, however. How we choose to categorize within sports is in our control and opinions will go either way - in my opinion, the separation of men's and women's sports was done to try to correct for that physical disparity caused by biology, if that's undone, I think the top records will be dominated by individuals with biological male sex, regardless of gender, in all categories.
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Ichthypresbyter 2y ago
As well as the drug allegations, there are claims that the record run was unfairly wind-assisted (if there's a tailwind greater than 2 m/s, the record doesn't count). The anemometer at the track was reading zero during the race, but people there on the day say it was windy, and the anemometer at the triple jump a few metres away read over 4 m/s. So the suggestion is that the track anemometer wasn't functioning.

User23 2y ago

Improvements in womens’ sprint times ceased the same time drug testing got good enough to catch all the androgens then in use. Today’s women doubtless could beat those records with modern gear and pharmaceutical enhancements.

trte9343r4 2y ago

Include transgender athletes and record improves a lot. There is no reason why women should be slower than males.

wiseowise 2y ago
Your solution to improving women records is to bring biological males?
- trte9343r4 2y ago
  Not to "bring", they are already there! Just stop discrimination!
Moomoomoo309 2y ago
So, you're making a very particular point, in such a way that it is easy to misunderstand. Normally, just saying "women" or "men" is fine, but in this instance, sports generally refer to biological sex, not social gender, because biology discriminates. Individuals with biological male sex have higher bone densities, more ability to gain muscle, tend to be taller, larger, etc. "Women", as in gender, not sex, should not be slower, this is true, but "women", as in sex, will be slower due to biology. The physical disparity is not a social issue, it's biology; the social component can be argued, however. How we choose to categorize within sports is in our control and opinions will go either way - in my opinion, the separation of men's and women's sports was done to try to correct for that physical disparity caused by biology, if that's undone, I think the top records will be dominated by individuals with biological male sex, regardless of gender, in all categories.
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Ichthypresbyter 2y ago

As well as the drug allegations, there are claims that the record run was unfairly wind-assisted (if there's a tailwind greater than 2 m/s, the record doesn't count). The anemometer at the track was reading zero during the race, but people there on the day say it was windy, and the anemometer at the triple jump a few metres away read over 4 m/s. So the suggestion is that the track anemometer wasn't functioning.