Thank you for posting this; I've never heard of her before, and as a master's female myself, I found the video really inspiring!
Thank you for posting this; I've never heard of her before, and as a master's female myself, I found the video really inspiring!
can any of you techies find a free stream for WMA WC? WMA charges 5€ per day or 20€ for whole event. I'm too cheap to pay.
Both Martin and Whitlock are impressive outliers. However, their feats are not just testaments to their hard work and training, it is the fact that their social class and status allow them the time and resources to compete.
One can imagine in twenty years the expansion of participants in master's level races where 70-year old Ethiopian men/women will be given the chance to compete. The age-group records we have now will resemble the results of the early 1900's Olympic games when less than 1/10th of 1% of the world's population could afford to participate.
All sports have a cultural context. Ethiopians have an advantage early in life (altitude + lots of pedestrian mileage) and a disadvantage later in life (poor health care, etc., although one can make the argument that rampant obesity in the west may soon be as debilitating as late-life challenges of Africans). Maybe Geb will run into his 80's, maybe not. This is life, not a perfectly controlled physiological experiment. To me it's all a wash. Both Ed and Kathy are wonderful and deserve every credit they get.
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Both Martin and Whitlock are impressive outliers. However, their feats are not just testaments to their hard work and training, it is the fact that their social class and status allow them the time and resources to compete.
One can imagine in twenty years the expansion of participants in master's level races where 70-year old Ethiopian men/women will be given the chance to compete. The age-group records we have now will resemble the results of the early 1900's Olympic games when less than 1/10th of 1% of the world's population could afford to participate.