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- From: tordm@vand (Tord G.M. Malmgren)
- Subject: Re: Why are Kenyans so fast (rebutal)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.114518.19579@kth.se>
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- Organization: Department of Physics, University of Stockholm -- Sweden
- References: <1jp38rINN9fb@savoy.cc.williams.edu> <OYSTEING.93Jan23113055@garm.idt.unit.no> <FKITTRED.93Jan23200913@spchp13.BBN.COM>,<1993Jan24.124407.1@iowa.physics.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:45:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.124407.1@iowa.physics.uiowa.edu>, theisen@iowa.physics.uiowa.edu writes:
-
- >Other points that The Article seemed to miss:
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- > 2) I think there have been less than 5 whites ever to run under 10.0
- > for 100m (if any). And I've heven't seen any whites run under
- > 44.2 for 400m
-
- I'd like to see the background of these sprinters.. I think that would be
- very important. How many of them had ultra-rich parents? How many of them
- come from a ghetto? I still believe in the tradition..
-
- > 3) What about asian runners???
-
- this is interesting.. Laos came in last on 12.02 on 100m during the Olympics.
-
- > 4) One thing I have noticed watching world class runners the last
- > several years is that most have a very pronounced curvature in their
- > backs. I don't mean big buttocks, but a curvature that thrusts
- > the chest forward and hips back, it doesn't seem to matter how
- > muscular the person is.
-
- this could be explained by the training, I think. When you train your hip-
- flexors they pull your lower back forward, and thus you get a curved back..
- The buttocks grow, cos they're well-used, so to speak, and it adds to the
- effect..
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- Tord Malmgren | InterNet: TordM@VanA.PhySto.SE | These opinions are my OWN,
- | BITNet : TordM@SESUF51 | and NOT of this department!
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- Department of Physics, University of Stockholm -- Sweden (Northern Europe)
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