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Originally Posted by pylon
And lastly, our female athletes, if I’m correct, have absolutely dominated our men on the podium the last few games.
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It's pretty darn even really. Only two games would there be considered dominance from one gender over the other, and that would be Torino for the Winter Games and Rio for the summer. Aside from those two, it's been mostly equal representation on the podium.
For the last 4 Olympics, taking those games out, you have:
Winter Olympics (Sochi, Vancouver, Salt Lake, Nagano)
Men: 18 Gold, 10 Silver, 10 Bronze; 38 total
Women: 17 Gold, 13 Silver, 11 Bronze; 41 total
Not much there really. Similarly on the Summer side (London, Beijing, Athens, Sydney):
Men: 7 Gold, 12 Silver, 14 Bronze; 33 Total
Women: 4 Gold, 10 Silver, 16 Bronze; 30 Total
So what happened in the other games that really skewed the stats? The men in Torino dropped a pretty big turd. Men's hockey won nothing. Jeremy Wotherspoon couldn't channel whatever Klassen and the women's skaters were channeling to have the best performance ever at a games. Dale Begg-Smith, as 'personable' as he is, made the Freestyle team look like idiots. So the women doubled up on the men medal wise. And could have easily had an even bigger gap. By Vancouver it seemed fixed (the men nabbed 8 Golds to the women's 5, though the women still had more medals) and the men nabbed more medals in Sochi (though the women had more golds). Here we are in Pyeongchang and it's a pretty even distribution so far yet again.
Similarly in Rio was the first time there was actually any real separation between the genders in the Summer games. 16 to 6 is a pretty big margin after being virtually tiedMore golds, silvers and bronzes (11-4 in that department) and they thumped them all over the place. How things change for the next games is the question now. Women in the pool alone could see that gap increase more and more.
Basically what I'm saying is that the Battle of the Genders is overblown. Our athletes have been doing pretty darn good.