With Luge it's not like the German that won beat the silver medalist by a full minute. Besides, the favorite can crash or bump a wall and blow their run whereas a momentary mistake in a hockey game isn't going to cost you 10 goals.
There definitely is a problem as there really wasn't that many girls playing hockey 20 years ago, I had one girl on my team in Atoms and we had a girl as one of our 2 goaltenders in Midget. I believe she was the only girl in Okanagan Mainline AA Midget the year she played for us and was the only female participant in the Midget B challenge cup at the provincial level.
There is now a much higher number of girls that play in Canada and their skill level is increasing rapidly. Hockey in Canada was not in its infancy when the Canadian men's team were winning by big scores, women's hockey is still somewhat in its infancy (even in Canada) and we are already winning by big scores, the problem is likely to get worse for a while yet before it gets better.
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