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Geno Auriemma keeps fielding the same sexist questions.

According to the sports website For The Win, Auriemma, the coach of the U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team, was recently asked if he thinks it's bad for basketball that his team is so dominant.

While it's true ― the U.S. Women's team is steamrolling the rest of the world when it comes to basketball ― Auriemma wants to know why people aren't asking the same question of Michael Phelps or the men's basketball team, who are also dominating in their respective sports.

According to For The Win, a reporter asked Auriemma: "People have been asking about whether the dominance of the USA team is bad for the game, but that's not being said on the men's side. What are your thoughts on that?"

Revel in Auriemma's response below:

We live in that Trumpian era where it's OK to be sexist and degrade people that are good, just because they're the opposite sex. We are what we are. We're never going to apologize for being that good. We're never going to apologize for setting a standard that other people aspire to achieve.

We got a guy in the pool with a USA swim cap on who nobody can beat. And if he wasn't in swimming, there would be a lot of other guys with gold medals. So, it is what it is. The world needs times when such great, great teams or great individuals are doing great things, that other people can talk about and other people say, "Wow, wouldn't it be great to be at that level?"

These are Olympians. They're supposed to play at a high level. They're professionals, they're supposed to put on a show, they're supposed to entertain. So, what are we supposed to do? Just go out there and win by a little? We're not bad for women's basketball, just like I say at UConn, we're not bad for women's basketball.

What's bad for women's basketball is when nobody's great, because then you could say, "You know what? I don't think anybody really knows how to play this game." I think people will say that there are some really good teams out here and when you see them play each other, they're great games. Serbia was up 20 the other day and lost to Canada. These are great games. We just happen to be somewhere else right now. That's okay. I don't mind.

Auriemma also coaches the UConn women's basketball team, which is dominant in their league as well. The 62-year-old coach fielded the same question about that team this past March and he had a similarly awesome response.

Perhaps we can stop asking questions about female athletes we wouldn't ask about men?

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Olympic Basketball Coach Has Flawless Response To Sexist Question

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Geno Auriemma keeps fielding the same sexist questions. According to the sports website For The Win, Auriemma, the coach of the U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team, was recently asked if he thinks it's bad for basketball that his team is so dominant. While it's true ― the U.S.

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Is it because girls are to good at basketball?

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Newsela | "No girls allowed" but a 5th-grade basketball team won't kick off its girls

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An elementary basketball team's valuable lesson in courage and fairness.

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Sexism is everywhere from where girls play basketball to what team they play on.  Is sexism that big in just basketball tho?lets see.

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Newsela | Basketball keeps Saudi women active, but players must be activists too

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Many girls and women play basketball in Saudi Arabia. But in their ultraconservative society, players need more than sneakers and a ball. They need courage and determination too.

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Last winter, my 8-year-old daughter wanted to join the basketball team. She'd only played in her school gym class, but loved the game, and after shooting a few baskets, she felt confident in her nascent abilities.

After breezing through the co-ed tryouts, she realized she was one of just three girls who made the team, yet she remained unfazed. "Most of the boys on my team are my friends," she explained to me, excited about the prospect of bonding with them on the court.

At practice, she held her own, got a few baskets and felt invigorated, encouraged. But during the first game - and all games that fell after - none of the boys would pass the ball to her.

Understandably, she fast grew weary of being underestimated. Her eyes would roll and her arms sagged at her sides while she waited for passes that never came. Her water breaks became more and more frequent. She stopped protesting when it came her turn to sit out.

Her coach took notice of my daughter's waning enthusiasm. A loving dad with a daughter of his own, he chose his words thoughtfully, encouraging her to wave her arms about and demand the ball. Show the boys she meant business.

After this chat, her head hung low for the whole walk home. The boys' lack of sportsmanship had become her problem, and it sucked all the joy out of her experience. It tortured me to see her doubt her abilities because of it.

"Do you really want to play?" I asked.

She nodded yes. I told her not to give up, to get back out there and keep trying.

"You are good," I told her. "And with a little more practice, you'll be really good."

As soon as those words left my lips, I internally chastised myself. She was trying as hard as any of the boys on her team. Why was it up to her to try harder? Why weren't the boys held accountable for not giving her a turn?

"What difference does it make?" she said, with more resignation than anyone her age should have. " They don't think I'm good. Even if I was the best player on the court, they wouldn't think I was good because I'm a girl."

I realized this may be true. I had to get creative. "Are you playing for them?" I asked. "Or are you playing for you?"

She shrugged as a note of pain crept into her voice. "I'd hoped to play with them," she said.

"Let me tell you something," I said. "The biggest mistake anyone could make is to underestimate someone like you. Because you work hard, you are smart, and you are powerful." I couldn't decide if this what she needed to hear, or just what I needed to say.

She dove to hug me, right there on the sidewalk. I clutched her to me and hoped at least a kernel of the sentiment had lodged into her outlook.

At the next week's practice, she did as her coach recommended. The ball bounced and flew about the court, around and around her as she waved and she waved in vain. It was as if she wasn't even there. Her frustration emanated in near visible fumes.

On the walk home that night, she nearly combusted. "I was right, Mom. All that effort was for nothing." I realized: Here was the ugliness of sexism, as shown during its earliest possible germination period.

Then, things got really ugly.

At the game that Friday, my daughter managed to steal the ball and started to dribble toward the opposing basket, only to have her own teammate - someone she considered a friend - tackle her to the ground to wrest the ball from her hands.

Physically hurt and stunned by his sudden outburst of physical aggression, she screamed, "That's it! I've had enough!" To preserve her dignity, I whisked her coat on and we walked off the court for good.

Even though her 8-year-old teammates are being raised by kind, progressive parents, they still, for some reason, felt compelled to send my daughter the message that her capabilities were limited by sheer virtue of her gender. A normally sweet boy had, for some reason, been driven to an act of primal, animalistic aggression.

Through my frustration, I scrounged up the words to explain to my daughter that, unfortunately, this kind of experience was but a microcosm of what she'd go through in life. She'd have to work twice as hard and twice as long to get what she rightfully deserved - and get knocked down a lot along the way - but her efforts were not for nothing.

"I'd hoped and prayed things would be different by the time you grew up, but I'm not sure it will be," I explained as gingerly as I could, dousing calm tones all over my words to mask my anger. "I always had to fight as hard as I could for the ball - fight for things to change - so boys like that would learn to be civilized and share the ball. But it seems like you will too. I'm so sorry about that."

At first, I regretted being so brutally honest with my young daughter. But sugarcoating the reality certainly won't help her any in the long run. Just as with my daughter's basketball game, I'll be there to whisk her away from any unauthorized show of aggression and would rather draw my last breath before I allow her to feel like a failure.

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My 8-year-old daughter wanted to play basketball. But sexism got in the way.

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Last winter, my 8-year-old daughter wanted to join the basketball team. She'd only played in her school gym class, but loved the game, and after shooting a few baskets, she felt confident in her nascent abilities. After breezing through the co-ed tryouts, she realized she was one of just three girls who made the team, yet she remained unfazed.

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Elena Delle Donne is not a female basketball player. She's a basketball player, period.

In a recent conversation with the Cut, the six-foot-five WNBA powerhouse expressed her many frustrations with the rampant sexism she -- and other women in the WNBA -- faces as an athlete in a male-dominated sport.

Delle Donne caught up with the Cut at the espnW Impact 25 gala, an event that honored the 13 Women of the Year, including Delle Donne, Serena Williams and Ronda Rousey.

"I just can't wait for the day where people want to talk about your skills on the court and not your looks," she told the site.

Her frustrations are more than valid: Delle Donne boasts some of the most impressive stats in the game across both the NBA and the WNBA. In 2015, she was the WNBA's MVP for her killer season with the Chicago Sky. Her free throw record of 95% accuracy is one of the best in basketball history. As WNBA.com reported last summer, "her accuracy is virtually unmatched in basketball period, let alone women's basketball. Steve Nash (90.43%), Mark Price (90.39%) and Stephen Curry (90%) rank as the top three in free throw percentage in NBA history -- albeit with many, many more attempts than Delle Donne."

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Her career before the WNBA was just as impressive: In her first year playing college ball, she was named both Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, scored 2,000 points by her junior season of college and she led the University of Delaware Blue Hens to the NCAA tournament in her senior year. She did all of this while battling Lyme's disease.

And yet, regardless of her phenomenally impressive record, one "Elena Delle Donne" search on social media shows just how much sexism she faces, with her gender and appearance serving as fodder for discussion instead of her raw and unstoppable skills.

Let's talk about how Elena Delle Donne is one of the foxiest players in the NBA. She got game too. #hoopers
- RT (@RTBailey3) February 29, 2016

Elena Delle Donne could get this dick 😏
- Oso Balboa (@SmokeyTheBearr) March 9, 2016

I want Elena delle Donne to box me out
- EL (@_Foster23) February 29, 2016

"I wonder how many times a Tom Brady is asked about how handsome he is, or J.J. Watt... it's something that us female athletes have to deal with all the time," she told the Cut.

And according to Delle Donne, the solution is pretty simple: "It needs to be talked about."

"Continuing visibility and getting eyes on our game and the product that we put out there [is] the biggest way to get people to speak about the game and our talents, instead of always just being like, 'Oh, a female basketball player...' I'm a basketball player... they don't have to add that, they don't say, 'male basketball player,'" she told the site.

This off season, Delle Donne has kept busy by messaging Kobe Bryant and training for the 2016 Olympics -- she'll find out in April if she's representing the U.S.A. in Rio come summertime.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article said that the Blue Hens went to the NCAA championship in 2013. They went to the NCAA tournament in 2013 but did not compete in the championship game.

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This WNBA Star Has Had Enough With Sexist Crap

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Elena Delle Donne is not a female basketball player. She's a basketball player, period. In a recent conversation with the Cut, the six-foot-five WNBA powerhouse expressed her many frustrations with the rampant sexism she -- and other women in the WNBA -- faces as an athlete in a male-dominated sport.