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- From: tordm@vand (Tord G.M. Malmgren)
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- Subject: Re: Why are Kenyans so fast and US distance runners so slow?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.111834.5056@kth.se>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 11:18:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.115326.3250@mic.ucla.edu>, rush@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Brian Rush ) writes:
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- >I would disagree here, in emphasis at least.
- >Read the article in RW a few months back titled
- >"white men can't run." It gives a biomechanical basis for the different
- >performances of (1)white (2)west african blacks and (3)east/north
- >african blacks. The facts presented in that article are somewhat
- >scientific and one can conclude from them that there definitely is a
- >biomechanical (and, thus, genetic) difference between these three people
- >groups athletically. The point that is still not settled AT ALL is the
- >EXTENT that this affects performance. Maybe it only makes a small
- >difference compared to culture, national emphasis, oportunity, etc. and
- >maybe not.
-
- yeah, well, is Sebastian Coe black or white? Khalid Skah? Dieter Bauhman?
- Pietro Minnea? I just mean, where do you draw the line? 5 generations back
- directly from Afrika and then no outter mix at all? I can agree with the
- genetics so far that people with generations back living up in the mountains
- will be adapted to it, and probably have an easier time picking up the
- oxygen, and if it happens to be Afrikans.. pure coincident.. so in a sense
- I guess I agree with that article, and we're splitting hair...
- It would like saying Norwegians are genetically benefitted to perform well
- in Nordic Skiing..
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