Are 100M Winners Always Black?

[Big Man]

Very interesting piece from the BBC today:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14679657

 

So, what inferences, if any, can be drawn from the fact that every winner of the Word Athletics Championship 100m event, since the inaugural event in 1983 has been black?

 

Is natural genetic talent a myth. Is it the power of practice that maketh the athlete...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Big Man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsem2M_eCxw

[The Boofon]

Very interesting piece from the BBC today:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14679657

 

So, what inferences, if any, can be drawn from the fact that every winner of the Word Athletics Championship 100m event, since the inaugural event in 1983 has been black?

 

Is natural genetic talent a myth. Is it the power of practice that maketh the athlete...

 

Poor show with you being a Scotsman and all.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RR1stxSOCg

[Big Man]

Poor show with you being a Scotsman and all.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RR1stxSOCg

 

Thanks for pointing this out - i wouldn't of even kent, i wasn't born.

 

Since 1983 though we've been getting bummed in the sprinting stakes. Now curling, that's different, were good at curling (a bit)...

[Dandyesque]

Very interesting piece from the BBC today:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14679657

 

So, what inferences, if any, can be drawn from the fact that every winner of the Word Athletics Championship 100m event, since the inaugural event in 1983 has been black?

 

Is natural genetic talent a myth. Is it the power of practice that maketh the athlete...

 

You only have to go a couple of years back from that to find that one of the best sprinters in the world was Scottish.

[Bebo]

Why are most winning swimmers white?

[Big Man]

Why are most winning swimmers white?

 

 

I've heard an awful lot of pish about this. Someone even tried to tell me once that:

 

The black people have a different bone structure than the white, and it makes it a lot harder to stay afloat. They can learn to swim, and become better than some other people, but it's a lot harder for them.

 

There are several prominent black people who can swim. Look at Usher:

 

 

Or Cullen Jones:

 

[tightbreeks]

in my best london accent

 

black boxers don't cut so easy as the white ones because the have a different facial bone structure to the white man. whiteys are all sharp and pointy with cheekbones and that.

[perthshirered]

in my best london accent

 

black boxers don't cut so easy as the white ones because the have a different facial bone structure to the white man. whiteys are all sharp and pointy with cheekbones and that.

 

Agreed.

We are all different.

Just like redheads bleed generally more than those with darker hair.

Eastern Europeans are pretty decent at the boxing too because the structure of their skulls are entirely different to all other Europeans, they are able to take knocks than the rest of us.

[Betty Swallicks]

Its mostly to do with muscle density.

 

Fact!

[Dandyesque]

Its mostly to do with muscle density.

 

Fact!

 

Nonsense.

 

It's down to being chased by lions in the jungle as kids.

[Betty Swallicks]

Nonsense.

 

It's down to being chased by lions in the jungle as kids.

 

 

Thats where they get their muscle density from.

 

(do you get lions in jungles?).

[Dandyesque]

Thats where they get their muscle density from.

 

(do you get lions in jungles?).

 

(no)

[Jocky Balboa]

I think the fact they run so well but are crap swimmers has something to do with the Achilles area being different in Blacks. They also have better fast-twitch muscle fibers, but Whites have better slow-twitch muscle fibers, apparently. That would explain why Blacks are good Boxers and Basketball players, but almost all the best Weightlifters/Strongmen and Wrestlers are White.

 

I'm not an Anthropologist, though, so can't say for certain, but Evolutionary Genetics is an interesting subject. I know a lady who is a PhD in the subject, hence the above.

[Bobby Connor]

Black folk are genetically better runners. They can't swim though so they were stuck in Africa for a while until white people invented slavery and boats.

[KintorePsycho]

I read the article and they suggest that it's not African Blacks but Jim Aitken Blacks and African American Blacks that are fastest, maybe slavery did have a hand in this? Only taking the fittest, strongest ones to work etc.

[Dandyesque]

I read the article and they suggest that it's not African Blacks but Jim Aitken Blacks and African American Blacks that are fastest, maybe slavery did have a hand in this? Only taking the fittest, strongest ones to work etc.

 

Or maybe a lot of them have a little bit of white ancestory with the slavers raping women and so on?

 

This would improve their genes - not suggesting that white is better, but the increased genetic variation.

 

There was a doctor making similar statements about the likes of Tiger Woods and Lewis Hamilton a while back.

 

Basically, mulattos are better.

[The Boofon]

Or maybe a lot of them have a little bit of white ancestory with the slavers raping women and so on?

 

This would improve their genes - not suggesting that white is better, but the increased genetic variation.

 

There was a doctor making similar statements about the likes of Tiger Woods and Lewis Hamilton a while back.

 

Basically, mulattos are better.

 

Not a rocket.

[hopeisimportant]

Not a rocket.

 

Ha ha, what the tell was that guy doing in the race?!