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In the NFL, a referee can ask for a review from the replay booth, or a head coach can issue a challenge to review the play using replays. A video referee can also use replays to help decision-making in rugby . In international cricket, an umpire can ask the Third umpire for a decision, and the third umpire makes the final decision.
Yet even in sports where sexist sociological barriers have been lowered, a performance gap can persist. First, most of the best research is on sports that are easily quantifiable. For example, there’s no way to directly compare the skill levels of elite tennis players to measure for tiny performance differences unless they play one another.
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- None of this is meant to disparage the phenomenal women athletes at the top of their game.
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