Post subject: Will women outpace men in 2156?

The 2156 Olympic Games is bound to hold unforeseen events: a balmy Antarctic venue, say, or virtual reality volleyball. But according to a group of UK scientists, it might also go down in history as the first year that women beat men in the 100-metre sprint.

To come up with this controversial prediction, epidemiologist Andrew Tatem of the University of Oxford and his colleagues plotted men and women's winning 100-metre Olympic times since 1900, and used this to forecast how race times would change in the future.

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I read this report briefly. Personally, I think it's too early to predict what happens in 2156, but interesting read still. While we regulate use of enhancement drugs, we see dramatic improvement in dieting and training methods to make athletes much more powerful. It is true that men and women have very different physical structure, but they may or may not be such a big issue a couple of hundred years from now.

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Personally I think men couldn't bear to let this happen. They might even pass a blind eye to drugs in order to keep ahead. Macho, but hey..

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You actually brought up an interesting point; the paper discusses physical potential of female athletes, but it does not discuss about psychological effects. They may or may not have rather significant impact.

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I think women want to be almost as good as men, on the whole. I believe they want to be led. But then again, I am an alien, so what do I know.