A Study on Height, Weight and Ages of the Representative Athletes at Tokyo Olympic Games

Abstract

At this moment, when Olympic Games are expect in Mexico City, in the course of this year, voices of criticism are being raised against rather poor results got by the Japanese during the Tokyo Olympics. Really some people go so far as to suggest that in view of the difference in physical strength, wholesale adoption of Weight System in all sorts of sports events would be the only solution enabling us to cope fairly with foreigners. Then, what was the scope and extent of the so-called difference in physical strength in any particular branch of sports ? In the following essay I shall try to give some light on that question, making use of an idea of what I should like to call "Volume of Physique" by way of a parameter for measurable physical strength. Though I use the term "volume", I don't mean to include in my survey those bullcalf or fatty types, but I shall confine the object of the study to "steel-like" physique that has gone through severe, all-round training.