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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Whatbox: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [qb] Whatbox, Nothing subjective here. I actually [b]looked[/b] at the Daegu games and [b] saw[/b] that [b]Kenyans, not Ethiopians[/b] are the masters of distance running. If you compile all the wins for both groups for the last 10 years you will see that in the professional and amateur distance running Kenyans(population 35 million) have outdone Ethiopians(85 million people) by the ratio of 3 to 1 in 1, 2, 3 finishing. The Kenyans have dominated anything from 800 metres to marathon in the last 10 years and when the men don't get first place up pop the women and they do. And they are masters of the steeple chase. Nobody can touch them. I say the hole thing is a puzzle because in West Africa there are lots of gracile people all over the place from the coasts all the way up to the Sahel. For the sprints it's to be noted that Jamaica with a population of almost 3 million can produce so many top sprinters. Its not about muscles totally either: Usain Bolt is built for the 400 and 800 yet he destroys everybody in the 100. Then you have the white Frenchman LeMaitre who is France's best sprinter--bronze in the finals 100--who is not muscled at all and quite pale in colour. Maybe he's just one of those rare outliers. But the French are fussing over him. And noteworthy too is black prowess in judo. How to explain that? [/qb][/QUOTE]Some things are probably just inexplicable / inexplainable. [QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [qb] Perahu, The first part of your post is a straight cut and paste from crackpot, J.P. Rushton. Looks like you forgot to paste in some words. You really know little about pre-modern African sociology. The facts are that poeple lived the group cohesion life in villages that subsisted mainly on agriculture. That's why in most there was no word for cousin. The word for such is "brother" or "sister". Aunts and uncles also play the role of mother and father. In all of this the family structure is "extended" not "nuclear". And in fact I thought "individualism" is something whites cherish along with "freedom" which is supposed to be the central tenet of modern Western life. Note too that many West Africans have long extremities which allows them to excel in the triple jump and the high jump. This year(Daegu) the triple jump was won by a West African transplant from the tiny island speck of Grenada in the Caribbean. And of course, there are the U.S. basketball players with their long legs and arms. The Tanner Study Debunked: Usain Bolt the greatest sprinter of all time is not muscled at all. He is tall, lean and has long extremities. [/qb][/QUOTE]Yup, another so obviously retarded post by this guy. His intellect appears to be at the level of lioness, Clyde, and crew (I call them the 90%-of-the-Time-Ignores-crew). Mentally noted. What I'm wondering though is if people with smaller feat are faster or slower. I remember they were often faster as a kid. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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