Did you ever turn on the television and watch the Olympics and wonder why mostly men?

I think I can
answer that.

The 1900 Games were the first to accept female athletes. As the tables change, you will notice that
women's events reached half the number of men's events only in 1992, almost a century since the first
Games. But at the 2012 London Games, for the first time ever, there was at least one woman in every
delegation. And by 2016, 45% of the 11,238 athletes were women. In 1900, women competed in three
mixed events - sailing, croquet and equestrian, and two women's events - tennis and golf. Like women's
participation, the number of women's events has steadily increased since then, with some notable
landmarks. By the IOC's own admission, women's participation remains "low". In 2016, the United States
won 121 medals, topping the medal table. That may not be that surprising, American athletes have
dominated Olympic medal tallies for years. But what you may not know is that the women on the team
won more medals (61) than the men (55) including more gold medals, by 27 to 19. The same happened
in 2012, in London, where US women won 13 more medals than their male counterparts. At first glance,
you would say, “ Yes, this is right.” But what I would say is that women are made for what men cant do,
not what they CAN do.