Women have shone brightly in the news and society of late. A lot, as it were. There is, of course, government and the meteoric rise in attention surrounding politicians in skirts and pantsuits. Retailers - especially bike shops - are trying to figure out how to better serve women. Men are stealing the girly infatuation with color by actually wearing pink in public. Jennifer Lopez got things rolling in media circles by doing the Malibu Triathlon. Though, that's not necessarily a focus on women specifically. But it does bring around the point that men and women have long performed differently in sport. (Or maybe that's a stretch for a segue). In any event, that's probably not going to change much even as science advances in the field of sports medicine, a researcher wrote in the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.
In analyzing two decades of results from Ironman events, Romuald Lepers, of the University of Burgundy in Dijon, determined that finish times of all athletes have plateaued. Lepers found that times decreased dramatically from 1981 through the late 1980s. But from 1988 through 2007, performance increased only 1.4 percent overall. Women made stronger advances than men in the run portion of Ironman, decreasing times by 3.8 percent in the last decade. But the data also show, Lepers wrote in this month's Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise journal, that there is nothing in the information he analyzed to indicate any changes in performance between genders in the future.
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