Any theories as to why Japanese female sprinters are much worse than the male sprinters? 0 entrants vs full team for Paris.

Japan's 2008 4x100 medal for the men helped solidify the popularity of sprints for men in Japan. The same has not happened for the women.

They do have two 100m Hurdlers making the Olympics. That one is the toughest event to get to in terms of lowest cut-off world ranking score too, so they're pretty decent hurdlers. One of them, Mako Fukube, is their national record holder.

Japan needs to hire the American pharmacists sprint coaches.

You are always looking to genetics. It's culture, culture, culture within the species.

and sex.

That expression I bolded is even more offensive and ridiculous.
Gabby Thomas, Femke Bol, Syd, Tamari Davis, TT Terry, Jenna Prandini or Abby Steiner cannot be described by any stretch of the imagination as being masculine for a woman.

Truly beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

It's a mystery to me. We have a similar type of contradiction in Canada where our male 100m runners have done much better than the female, but alternatively, our female 400m runners have tended to show better depth than the men. I would be inclined to think it is coaching bias failing to do what is needed to develop the strength and power needed for the short sprints.

Japan - a developed country with a history of treating women poorly
Kenya - a developing country with a history of treating women poorly.

Both have distance traditions, with some sprinting prowess, but for women, sprinting is not a thing. Definitely the case in Japan, more so in Kenya.

It might be genetic. It might be cultural. But comparing Kenya to Japan controls for many factors.

worldathletics.org

100 Metres - women - senior - all - 2024

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The top list for Asia as a whole is not very strong for the women, but for the men it is more competitive.

worldathletics.org

100 Metres - men - senior - all - 2024

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True, although the women's lead time is by a 15-yr old prospect.

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What's the infrastructure like for for girls sprinting in the schools? Sprints and field events are very school or club dependant because good coaching is required, and no one's gonna push them to say, run 200m as fast as possible without it.

Japanese women are huge - Jamaica in sprinting huge - in women's board sports like skateboarding and snowboarding. It may be that women either seek out, or have to resort to, more self-directed or informally organized pursuits than sprinting if they want to get good at sports.

The body-image explanation doesn't really ring true. There have been a number of great female Japanese wrestlers and judokas who look pretty hulky, because their sport demands it. And the current world champion in the javelin is Japanese.

Kitaguchi! I love her!

like a cannonball

like a cannonball to the f**king face