See, this argument I don’t get. The US Women’s team, when World Champions a decade ago, would regularly lose to high school boys teams in warm up games. American high school boys (Nomad Soccer from San Diego). In 2000, in a warm up game for the Olympics, the Nomad Soccer U-15 boys team drew 1-1 with the US Women’s…

Sure but tricking a teammate into confessing it while recording and then releasing it? It’s not like he happened to find out and told his fiance out of respect. Maybe it’s not morally wrong but you can’t expect people to want to be around you if you do that.

That might be an American or North American-centric thing though. Federer/Nadal/Djokovic are pretty big deals in Europe.

I think they mean individual performance, not accolades.

And they exist even in sports like tennis, where the “performance gap” between men and women isn’t really a thing

The women would gladly play 5 sets but the tournaments don’t want them to.

“Prize, wage, and support gaps exist between the genders at the elite level in almost every sport in the United States.”