A question that is about to break like a tsunami over social media: On Tuesday, the renowned Ontarian journalist, podcaster and former youth track star appeared on the Real Science of Sport podcast , and you would have to say he immediately established a hell of a pace.

Co-host Mike Finch observed at the outset of the 108-minute video chat that his colleague, South African sports scientist Ross Tucker, had previously met Gladwell in 2022 at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Tucker had appeared on a panel about “the inclusion of transgender athletes in sports,” representing the position that biological-male physical advantages in women’s athletic competitions are fundamental, incorrigible and incompatible with the entire concept of a women’s competition. Gladwell had se

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