Wejo, Rojo WAKE UP, USA NOT the best sprint team in the world, Jamaica is

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14 years ago 08/22/2009 5:26pm EDT

This is getting annoying,

Your Bias towards american athletes was totally understandable as you are an american site.

but now it is just plain stupid, in several threads you have suggested USA is dominant in the sprints (replying to ato you said "guess he missed that usa was the best sprints team" and in another thread you talked about usa being the best)

did you miss this:

4x100m - jamaica

4x100w - jamaica

100m - jamaica

100w - jamaica

200m - jamaica

200w - usa

both 400 - usa

by my tally that is 5 - 3 and thats including the 400m the longer sprint, if you want to look at pure speed it is 5-1 PLUS both the combined sprints which really define the best nation go to jamaica!!!!!

14 years ago 08/22/2009 5:31pm EDT

re: heretheygo!!

and if bolt could have run the 400m he probably would have won that to so the tally would really be 6-2

14 years ago 08/22/2009 5:42pm EDT

re: heretheygo!!

I believe the BroJos were talking about a much longer period of time than this last week. Go back ten years, twenty years, thirty years .......................

14 years ago 08/22/2009 5:46pm EDT

re: We know what we know!

by the last week you mean the last 3 years right?

14 years ago 08/22/2009 7:19pm EDT

re: heretheygo!!

4x100m - jamaica

4x100w - jamaica

100m - jamaica

100w - jamaica

200m - jamaica

200w - usa

400m - usa

400w - usa

4*400m-usa

4*400w-usa

Assuming the 4*4 squads do what they shoot, that looks like a tie to me.

14 years ago 08/22/2009 8:01pm EDT

re: just anotha brotha

yeah, at the very best case scenario (which may very well not happen) i could give you the tie - so no, usa is not dominating as the brojos seem to think

14 years ago 08/22/2009 9:05pm EDT

re: yeah yeah and...

Yep, the inventory of the medals alone should be enough to say that the Jamaicans have an "advantage" the Americans don't.

Assuming, without going into all the details, that the short sprints are contended by people of West African origin having survived the slave trade holocaust, and looking at those populations - around 40 million in the U.S. and 2.5 million in Jamaica - you must conclude something is going on.

Track being the national pastime? Please, that doesn't overcome a 16 to 1 advantage in people to draw from, even if only a tenth of the larger pool actually participates.

These conversations have been had over and over again on many threads, but no sufficient explanation is out there for how Jamaica overachieves to the extent it does.

If the California and Mississippi high school sprint all stars had a dual meet each year, and the Mississippians started winning, you'd surely be asking questions about what is going on in Mississippi or what is not going on in California. Mississippi would send through exceptional athletes occasionally, but never outperform in total. The US/Jamaica imbalance is much greater than those two states. Jamaica clearly has something working in their favor more than just being more focused on track.

14 years ago 08/22/2009 9:35pm EDT

re: yeah yeah and...

yeah yeah and... wrote:
and if bolt could have run the 400m he probably would have won that to so the tally would really be 6-2

yeah and if Jamaica ever really cracks down on drug taking like the US had to because of congress, then I think things will eventually even themselves up.

(ps. neither Jamaican or American)

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