cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18302836

I’m just picturing that robot from Star Trek (the one thinking about “this sentence is false”) going “huh” and then blowing up…

  • 🏝Skoob🏝@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Degender most sports and separate by weight class. Perfect? No. Solves this idiotic mess of a worldwide scandal? Yes.

    Now, about all the doping from Russia and China…

    • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      This doesn’t work as out of a man and woman of the same weight the man will still be stronger on average. Women have a higher body fat percentage, and less muscle in their upper body simply because they have less testosterone. You would probably have to use testosterone as a way of categorizing people in sport. It sucks but there is no other fair way I can see.

      • orcrist@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        There is no “fair”. You can’t have it. Tall people usually win in basketball. Narrow builds do better in marathons. People older for their age bracket (as kids) are more likely to enter the NHL (growing up they’re bigger so they get more playing time). So yeah, whatever you do, most of us are starting with a big disadvantage at any sport, even if we put in the same effort our whole lives.

        That’s life. The question is how to make rules knowing all of that.

        • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          You are quite right. Some of the great swimmers for example have unusually long arms compared to their height. Competitive sports at the level we do it now can never be fair. It arguably shouldn’t get nearly as much attention. I would argue that we should be pushing more people to do casual sports, rather than just sitting and watching spectator sports.

        • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
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          1 month ago

          A little late, but I think I have a reasonable solution to the genderless weight class classification.
          Measuring the hit force of athletes for sports like boxing could work. Not sure how viable that is in real world applications, with human nature and all, but it seems reasonable to me. If the issue is men on average hit harder than women of similar builds, why not just classify by hit force instead?