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- From: tordm@vand (Tord G.M. Malmgren)
- Subject: Re: Why are Kenyans so fast and US distance runners so slow?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.204355.13567@kth.se>
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- Organization: Department of Physics, University of Stockholm -- Sweden
- References: <1jp38rINN9fb@savoy.cc.williams.edu>,<1993Jan22.185421.21108@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:43:55 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.185421.21108@crd.ge.com>, berkery@emmax5crd.ge.com (jack berkery) writes:
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- >Congratulations, you discovered through personal experience exactly what took
- >tens of thousands of dollars for the Swedish Olympic team to figure out :-}
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- they wanted a "good" reason to go on vacation... :)
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- >Bottom line: Nothing genetically special about them. It seems distance running
- >is Kenya's national sport and gets all the best athletes. You should have told
- >them and saved Swedish taxpayers some money.
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- it wouldn't have saved any money; they get a certain amount of money
- each year, and they can do whatever they want to do with it, it still
- cost the tax payers the same :)
- see the reason above "why" they went to Kenya...
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- Tord Malmgren | InterNet: TordM@VanA.PhySto.SE | These opinions are my OWN,
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- Department of Physics, University of Stockholm -- Sweden (Northern Europe)
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