Originally Posted by
burnthesheep
I'm going to copy and paste my response from another forum where this topic has 9 pages going.......
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I think folks really really need to go back and look at the podium pictures.......again.
For all the picking and jibing we give climate deniers on science and selective belief in data........I think we're being pretty selective in our beliefs about all these "genotypes" and testosterone. We're trying to find a reason or way to justify it.
Find the outlier in these photos: to me it's the person who looks like a Fred on the local group ride standing on a podium in a UCI world champ jersey.
Just to keep you on your toes...........
spot the d-bag in these pictures also!
I can't wait for this wet paper bag of an argument to get wound up in the pros at some point when someone transitions and starts riding OTF in every race.
Your testosterone is already way down in road racing as a male. What's another few points? Your lungs and heart and body are still some XX% larger from birth anyway.
I don't think giving a man the chemical makeup of a woman makes up for being born 1/2 a foot taller with larger lungs and heart. 180 vs. 118 grams or so. 10% less lung volume. Larger liver and more overall glycogen and other "stores".
C'mon.
First, I can't tell anything from those photos, they all look alike to me. And second, what of women who is 6'4 and a man who is 5'4? Its not as simple as you proclaim.
Originally Posted by
markwesti
Either you're legally recognized or your not. You can't have it both ways. There is no flip-flop selectability between the sexes.
Its not unfair, its just unfortunate.