TAURUS

There is a sport called Bull Leaping, not an Olympic sport, although it has been around even before the first ever Olympic Games in 776 BC. Bull Leaping can still be seen in south-west France where it is traditionally known as the Course Landaise. Unlike bullfighting, it is animal friendly and is meant to show off the acrobatic and vaulting skills of the “toreros”.

Here is an etching of a vaulter made by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya.

And here is a photograph of a modern bull leaper.

Both these images are taken from the Bull-leaping page on Wikipedia at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping

So what relevance has all this to the modern Olympic Games?

It is obvious from the above images that bull leapers must be excellent vaulters and/or acrobatic gymnasts 

Could there be a link between Taurus athletes and these bull leaping skills?

This is the chart that shows the link.

All Rhythmic Gymnastics and Pole Vaulting Competitions

The probability is just under 1 in 200,000. Considering the low number of medals awarded in these competitions, this is a really powerful association. Putting it another way, Taurus athletes have been awarded 128% more medals than expected by chance.

Taurus female athletes, although not performing as well as their male Taurus counterparts, still perform better at these competitions than female athletes of any other Zodiac sign and so they have been included in this chart.

On the subject of female athletes, Taurean women, from the statistical point of view, are definitely more interesting than their Aries counterparts. They’ve even stolen their glory in Ice Hockey medals!

All Women’s Ice Hockey medallists

You can see from this chart that, although women Aries athletes have slightly more medals than expected, it is the Taurus athletes that are significantly greater than chance. (Probability of nearly 1 in 100). Taurean Ice Hockey players are indeed the bully girls!

Could this mean that Women’s Ice Hockey is a more gymnastic type of game than the aggressive male game?

And, talking of stealing glory, they’ve also done it in swimming to their Pisces counterparts! Well, not totally, or the Pisces effect wouldn’t stand up, but it is true in one particular style of swimming called the butterfly. Here is the chart.

All Women’s Butterfly and Swimming Medley Competitions

I have chosen to add in the medleys because the butterfly is included but actually it makes little difference to the probability of over 1 in 160.

Just as an aside, the equivalent chart for male butterfly is highly significantly uniform. This means that athletes in all Zodiac signs are awarded almost exactly the number of medals that you would expect from chance. To be so close to chance as this set is actually not common at all!

Curiosity Corner

Taurus athletes born in 1985, 1986 or 1987 were awarded proportionately far more medals than their counterparts in other Zodiac signs. They gained 21 medals instead of the 8.5 expected by chance. The probability of this happening is greater than 50,000 to 1