Let the spluttering begin

The New Scientist predicts that one day women will be faster runners than men.

Of course, their methods are stupid. Women are gaining faster than men because the growth rate hasn't hit a plateau like the rate for men's has. And that's because women have only recently gotten even close to the advantages the male athletes have always had, so rapid improvement is to be expected.

Nonetheless, this is a good reminder that women's sports are improving rapidly and there should be no reason to keep discounting female athletes are wildly inferior to male athletes.