Segundo o estudo apresentado no texto, as referências a atletas femininas:

Is some Olympic commentary sexist?
By Claire Bates, 11 August 2016

According to a recent study by Cambridge University Press. Researchers analysed millions of words relating to men and women and Olympic sports in the Cambridge English Corpus (CEC) and the Sport Corpus - massive databases that include news articles and posts on social media.
The study revealed common word combinations for female athletes included aged, older, pregnant and married or unmarried. In contrast, top word combinations for male athletes included fastest, strong, big and great.
It also found that the language around women in sport also focussed disproportionately on appearance, clothes and personal lives.
It’s not just language where there is a difference in attitude - female Olympic athletes are still garnering far fewer column inches and given less TV airtime than their male counterparts. Researchers found men were mentioned twice as often in the CEC and three times more often in the Sports Corpus.
However, some things are changing. The proportion of female athletes competing at the Olympics has increased with every games since 1964 when it was 13.2%. By 1988, 26.1% of competitors were women and in Rio 2016 it is 45%.

(Adaptado de www.bbc.com - acesso em 11/08/2016)

focam, em menor proporção em relação aos homens, em aparência, roupas e vida pessoal.

incluem, ao contrário daquelas feitas aos atletas masculinos, palavras como “fracas”, “pequenas” e “delicadas”.

tendem a enfatizar características das atletas, não necessariamente relacionadas ao esporte.

nunca são fornecidas por mulheres e, por isso, enfatizam a superioridade dos atletas masculinos

quase sempre, destacam a força das mulheres em competições em que os homens eram “mais rápidos ou mais fortes”.