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No, it doesn't. Read the links. I'm giving you papers, and you're citing anecdotes from CNN and Women's Health.

"In summary, men’s advantage in strength tends to show over short distances, while women’s endurance appears advantageous over longer distances. The extent of these differences, however, varies by sport and by course type (LCM vs. SCM vs. SCY)."

-your link

edit: Also, look at the graphs in the swim link. The trend lines clearly show there's a distance where the difference will reach 0% and guess what happens after!

Truly, you have a talent for ignoring the mountain of evidence in front of you, to fixate on the one thing that validates your biases.

The sentence you re quoting is from a site showing an across-the-board advantage for men, which gets smaller, but does not disappear, as distances increase. Literally every graph on the page shows that men are faster, in both swimming and running events, at all distances. But somehow you managed to read past all of that to find the one sentence that kinda-sorta says what you want to hear.

Impressive.

https://swimswam.com/comparing-mens-womens-records-in-swimmi...

> advantage for men, which gets smaller, but does not disappear, as distances increase.

The study below suggest otherwise (for running, which I learned about in a different HN post, I'll defer on the swimming bit that I have no idea of or thoughts about)

"[...] women become faster than men at the most extreme distances over 195 miles long."[0]

[0] https://runrepeat.com/state-of-ultra-running

Yeah, I mentioned this in another comment. There's clearly a trend toward equalization over longer distances, but even here, you see differences in performance out to 100 miles. But there are also no error bars, so we have no idea how significant these differences are.

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