There’s a lot of reasons the women are ahead of the men in our medal count. Not the least of which being that the summer games are very deliberately skewed to a female dynamic in the US, they play sports that are generally not popular with US males, we don’t want to watch them and we don’t want to play them. This means those sports don’t draw our best male athletes, which means that the male athletes we’re sending over are second tier, and don’t win. But they ARE very popular with women, they watch them and the play them, so our best female athletes are in these sports, and that’s who we send.
You just have to compare basketball and gymnastics results, these are what happens when our best athletes are playing that sport, we wipe the floor with the competition.
Well said discostu.