The issue is unthinking equality.
Men and women should by and large have equal rights. Sometimes one of the sexes may require more or less rights than the other. Sometimes they require the sole consideration of being “humans”. Such as voting rights, employment rights is all that matters. Sometimes not.
As men can’t get pregnant, say, women require additional rights (rather than men requiring fewer rights). That men don’t live as long should allow for a consideration that they retire earlier, but this is not yet something that is conventionally accepted, showing bias against men in law. As do the various judgements that judges make in childcare and custody matters. It is generally also not accepted men have equal rights in childcare matters. It is also noted that women have not been as successful in careers overall due to the requirement for maternity leave mid break, holding them back.
However regarding sport specifically, if you make a general presumption that the fittest women are not equal in strength to the fittest men, then like for like sport in most endeavors is a long way off – think football, tennis, marathons, biking, anything. As shown say in Tennis, with shorter matches, then it follows that the spectacle of the match or biking, and the speed and distance of the racing, the overall length of the competition or the time/difficulty will have been adjusted downwards for the women competitors.
As such, it seems that the longer, more remarkable spectacle takes precedence in any event, regardless of base sex. If there is a sporting event requiring more “sacrifice” regardless of sex, that should take precedence, however physiologically, I can’t think of anything that women would ever place first in over men, as sport requires strength, which men have the physiological bias for.
Intellectually, we should be even stevens.
Basically, we’re equal, but we’re not the same.