An Advantage in the Air?

In response to our post on athletic gender testing earlier this week, one of our most treasured commenters posed this stumper:

Are there no sports where being a woman might be a competitive advantage over being a man? Equestrian events maybe, or long distance swimming?

Tough one! We've long been familiar with some research vouching for the supposed superiority of women in ultra-marathons, but we're not sure the totality of the sport's results bears out that thesis. And certainly in the longest ru