Steve Sailer and Stephen Seiler

In the following viewpoint, Steve Sailer and Stephen Seiler claim that female athletes will never outperform their male counterparts. Using running events to compare the two sexes, the authors observe that the gap between men’s and women’s times in track races has increased during the 1990s. Sailer and Seiler assert that the growing gap is partly due to a decline in the number of African women competing in sports and stricter controls on steroid use by female runners from formerly Communist European nations. Sailer is a businessman and writer, and Seiler is a sports physiologist at Agder College in Kristiansand, Norway.

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1. In the authors’ views, why is track the best sport to use to compare men’s...