Except i didn’t say that hormones were irrelevant to performance. Unfortunately its never such a binary situation.
I was talking about the physical effects of hormones while going through puberty.
If this persists then there will be advantages.
If it degrades over time then how long does it take?
Lots of professional sport is undertaken by late teen or early twenties athletes, will they still have ‘advantages’?
It really doesn’t matter in the vast majority of cases and possibly even all cases.
It is something that needs to be understood though given that it’s competitions that often feed into the professional scene and the data needs to support it
Except i didn’t say that hormones were irrelevant to performance. Unfortunately its never such a binary situation.
I was talking about the physical effects of hormones while going through puberty.
If this persists then there will be advantages. If it degrades over time then how long does it take? Lots of professional sport is undertaken by late teen or early twenties athletes, will they still have ‘advantages’? It really doesn’t matter in the vast majority of cases and possibly even all cases.
It is something that needs to be understood though given that it’s competitions that often feed into the professional scene and the data needs to support it