I think we could even be more specific in the sports seperation and let each sport figure out specific physical qualities to group their competitors into. Let me try an example: Runners could be grouped by leg and arm to body ratio (I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say that long-legged and -armed people have an inherent advantage in running on flat ground) Probably the same for swimmers....and spear throwing...okay, fuck, maybe I don't know enough about sports to find a differing example or there's no olympic sport where small and slender people have a natural advantage over talls. Maybe archery? I could imagine that a beefy upper body is more important in archery than having long arms (or at least more important than having long legs)?

I wanted to continue with "have these physical qualities as baseline groupings and allow individuals who over- or underperform despite their physicality jump into a higher/lower grouping", which I still think is a good idea and I'm not sure if that isn't already a thing. I'm not a sports people, as you may gather by reading this

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I'm not any more qualified than you are but that sounds good to me, we can hire some sports scientists and make them figure it out