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Men's records and women's: are the women better already?: Moving towards a gender-neutral Olympics
Article first published online: 4 APR 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00554.x
© 2012 The Royal Statistical Society
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Kovalchik, S. (2012), Men's records and women's: are the women better already?: Moving towards a gender-neutral Olympics. Significance, 9: 18–23. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00554.x
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- Issue published online: 4 APR 2012
- Article first published online: 4 APR 2012
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Women's record times and distances may always lag behind men's. But, asks Stephanie Kovalchik, is this because we are measuring the wrong things? She looks forward to an Olympics that rewards achievement as well as luck of the genes – where determination as much as talent could earn an athlete gold …