Only at the uneven bars, and even there men could probably do better if they are careful.
However gymnastics is certainly a womanly sport to do no matter what. And a niche sport. "Gymnasium" as it was in the 19th century maybe
I respect male gymnasts when they are doing rings. For five minutes when I was in my teens & twenties during Olympics, I would say to myself: How much time would I have to put in to do rings like elite male gymnasts? Thought always quickly passed.
They should ONLY do rings, and maybe the parallel bars. None of this prancing around on the mat and vaulting.
One of Alex Hutchinson's (or maybe it was David Epstein's) recent books said that women were better at long-distance open-water swimming, like 50 or 100 miles.
Obviously, rhythmic gymnastics. Flexibility is the most important factor.
Women and men compete together in the Olympic equestrian. All three medalists and 13 of 18 finalists in dressage were women in Tokyo Olympics. If I am not mistaken, 1996 was the last year a man won a medal in dressage.
OK, but what were the sex of the horses.......?
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I always wondered about golf and bowling. It seems women can compete.
In the LPGA do they use the "women's" tees? how much lower is the average score?
As far as bowling, there's absolutely no reason the separate by sex. And I'm sure bowlers never get any, anyways. LOLOLOLOL
Are you kidding? The ability to hit it far and throw that ball are huge advantages to the male.
How about Darts? It's not really a sport, more of a skilled activity like Pool.
Darts and Pool definitely. And no, I'm not kidding.
I'm old enough to remember a woman suing to get on the Men's PBA because her scores were as good as the men but she earned less money as a woman (this was in the 1970's so I don't remember the outcome). But, anyway it would be easy to prove if the scores are available.
For Golf- obviously a man would have an advantage on longer holes but I wonder what the scores are comparatively. Those no reason a woman's short game wouldn't be as good as a man.
I think the only advantage a man would have is off the tee on Par 5's and some Par 4's.
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(Soresntam) ended the first round at +1, though she was tied for first in driving accuracy.
That's interesting. I'd like to see scores of men and women on the same courses. There must thousands of results to look at.
In the case of Sorenson, above, she didn't make the cut, but there were men who didn't make the cut. Golf is close. Bowling, darts, poker (if you consider that a sport) could be co-ed.
Way too much chatter going on anymore about men vs women in sports when there shouldn't be,
How can anyone not remember mom and dad and how much stronger dad was? Dad changed that flat not mom, dad climbed on the roof to fetch that ball not mom. Dad mowed the lawn not mom, he did all the heavy lifting around here not mom. Just like you remember seeing growing up.
Males have no business competing against the females in sports, there is a reason they play soft ball, how high are the hurdles for the girls? Everything about this is ridiculous, totally stupid. Any male needing to beat the girls in anything has major league problems and needs help. Wow you can beat a smaller, weaker, slower girl, big damn deal son, nobody is impressed except you which says it all,
Speaking of dad mine would tell me.........be careful with your sisters......when we played ball. I only played when invited and did take it easy on them, they were girls.
Some Texas boys in high school hold the HS 4x1 record, that team would totally destroy the Olympic female gold medalists.
This is true. And I remember my mother doing the laundry and cooking our meals and cleaning the house, and my father didn’t do any of that. He cut wood for the fire sometimes. He did all the heavy lifting.
My mother had wanted to go to medical school, but that wasn’t an option because women didn’t do such things. Her brother became a very successful dentist, and mum taught school for 30 years. We all remember how much smarter men must be.
Any other way of imagining things is ridiculous, totally stupid.
(Soresntam) ended the first round at +1, though she was tied for first in driving accuracy.
That's interesting. I'd like to see scores of men and women on the same courses. There must thousands of results to look at.
In the case of Sorenson, above, she didn't make the cut, but there were men who didn't make the cut. Golf is close. Bowling, darts, poker (if you consider that a sport) could be co-ed.
Bowling? No way. That's a power sport. It takes a lot of strength to get enough speed on a 16 pound ball, and the more of your strength you have to use, the less accuracy you get.
We don’t actually know that women are better than men even at rhythmic gymnastics, ballet, or synchronized swimming unless they compete head to head in the identical activity roles.
All we know is there is some evidence that women are slightly more flexible than men, but these sports or art forms are not pushing flexibility to the human limit and also require muscle strength, so there isn’t an obvious physiological reason for why men wouldn’t be able to perform as well as women if they had the incentive to do so.
