Women will one day outsprint men by 2156 Olympics

[Champ]

LONDON (Reuters) - Women could be faster 100-metre sprinters than men by the 2156 Olympics, according to a study.



By the middle of the next century women may be leaving men in the dust and could, for the first time, beat them in the 100 metres.


If projections by scientists at Oxford University are correct, women will close the gender gap by clocking 8.079 seconds in the 100 metres, ahead of the best male time of 8.098 seconds. The current world record stands at 9.78 seconds.


"If current trends continue, the women will run faster than the men at the 2156 Olympics," said Andrew Tatem, an epidemiologist at the university.


"There is a strong trend at the moment of both men and women improving their 100-metre times at the Olympics but women are increasing at a faster rate ..," he told Reuters.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=856&ncid=856&e=1&u=/nm/20040930/od_uk_nm/oukoe_science_sport_women

[qazplm]

1. thats a little silly

yeah they may be increasing at a faster rate, but the rate is not going to remain constant.

At some point, like the men, the women are going to see that rate drop greatly as they come up on the upper limits of female bodies.

No reason to expect that the fastest women will ever beat the fastest men, not sexest, just physiology.

Now having said that, the fastest women are probably faster than 95% of all men, but there are even high school boys right now that run faster than the fastest women athletes on occassion.

The gap may be closing fast, but its an awful big gap. I highly doubt it.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Agreed

I had a professor once that said in the future that women may be able to beat men in races that are marathon-length or longer, but not less than that.

I'm a huge supporter of women's sports, but the reason for the recent rapid increases is due to much greater sports involvement from girls and women over the past 20-30 years. The rate of increase will eventually slow down.

[Burma Jones]

2. Uhhhhhhhh

Maybe this has something to do with Women's Sports only being taken seriously in the last few decades.

[kick-ass-bob]

4. If current trends continue, men and women will finish the 100-M in

0.74 seconds in the year 8040.


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