The data also shows that female athletes were generally younger than their male counterparts during the early Games. This likely reflects the limited range of sports that women were permitted to compete in. By the late 20th century, as women were allowed to participate in nearly all the same sports as men, the age distributions for male and female athletes became more symmetrical. [https://distributionofthings.com/olympians-getting-younger/](https://distributionofthings.com/olympians-getting-younger/)
Looks like I would have had more chance of competing 100 years ago!
surely there is pretty good info being hidden in the fact that they grouped the years arbitrarily to make them similar in size.
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Sources: Kaggle: “120 Years of Olympic History”, “Paris 2024 Total Medals Tally”, “2021 Tokyo Olympics Results”
Visualisation by [distributionofthings.com](http://distributionofthings.com/) using Python (Pandas & Seaborn).
The data also shows that female athletes were generally younger than their male counterparts during the early Games. This likely reflects the limited range of sports that women were permitted to compete in. By the late 20th century, as women were allowed to participate in nearly all the same sports as men, the age distributions for male and female athletes became more symmetrical. [https://distributionofthings.com/olympians-getting-younger/](https://distributionofthings.com/olympians-getting-younger/)
Looks like I would have had more chance of competing 100 years ago!
surely there is pretty good info being hidden in the fact that they grouped the years arbitrarily to make them similar in size.