Why don't American White People Sprint???? It all starts in High School.......

Yahrrrgghh!!! wrote:

. Could there be some really god white spinters?.

Some god like white spinters. Sure. All it takes is drugs.

You're a fucking moron.

Please explain why no Asian has ever run under 10, and why Jamaica produces the best champions? Why do people have such a hard time accepting that there is a genetic link to talent.

Are you crazy? Most American white people in track choose sprints over distance at the start. When you can't keep up with the sprinters than you move up.

If you are a white kid in high school in 90 percent of all programs and can break 12.0 for the 100 out of the blocks you stay a sprinter. Even if you are a slow one.

You are delusional if you think there has ever been one single white sprinter 100 man that ever was funneled by their coach to be a distance runner due to his race. Maybe it happened at some inner city school and some coach pushed a white guy up who might have run 10.9 to be leg in the 4 by 4 or 8.

Totally different bodytypes with sprint talents and distance runners.

You are right about the cliques but it's more prevalent regarding black distance talents that don't want to move up and mesh into the distance runner clique,

The white sprinters prefer just fine to adapt to hanging out with the black sprinter "clique". Same with basketball players. A lot of the best white players even sound black when they speak.

blacks-too lazy for distance running training.

whites- genetically inferior for sprints.

thank you.

George Alas wrote:

You are delusional if you think there has ever been one single white sprinter 100 man that ever was funneled by their coach to be a distance runner due to his race.

The track coach has nothing to do with it, it's the football coach who divides track athletes by race. Most coaches will cut any white kid lighter than a TE, LB or FB, unless they can play QB. These kids are left with no fall sport other than XC, which makes them worse sprinters if anything. Meanwhile the speed positions on the football team get an extra season of training, and so of course they dominate spring track. Thus the notion of racial sprint abilities becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you have a white kid and want him to be a sprinter you need to make him do power lunges every day starting when he's as young as 5.

The reason western hemisphere blacks are better sprinters is genetically they got passed down from slaves, who spent day after day picking cotton, reaching down and basically doing tons of lunges, over and over and over.

The whole dark skin holds in heat theory of Bannister is complete nonsense. Otherwise East Indians would benefit, they are as dark skinned as anyone. Obviously, they are terrible athletes, so the theory is dead.

Native East Africans are also pretty terrible sprinters, although some have recently emerged like Murielle Ahoure and Blessing Okagbare. But those girls and Frank Fredericks (who is mulatto, father is white) are the exception.

Juan qucolara wrote:

blacks-too lazy for distance running training.

whites- genetically inferior for sprints.

thank you.

You seem to be implying that distance training is harder than sprint training.

You've clearly never been a sprinter.

Same reason whites everywhere can't sprint.

OP still raises a good question, there are many good white Europeans, white Australians, and Asians who run 10.0x / soon sub-10 but in America there are no good white sprinters. It is not purely a genetic thing.

HardLoper wrote:

OP still raises a good question, there are many good white Europeans, white Australians, and Asians who run 10.0x / soon sub-10 but in America there are no good white sprinters. It is not purely a genetic thing.

I don't know about "good question."

Culture, obviously, is a big factor. American black culture stresses masculine, fast, powerful sports such as sprinting, football, basketball. You see this in countries like Jamaica, too, where all of the real estate is put into sprinting. American whites haven't historically had that same cultural push and tend to go into more "thinking man" sports like baseball or long distance running. American black culture tends to rebuke what are considered feminine sports like long distance running, whereas white culture tends to be more accepting.

White European culture, much like Black American or Jamaican culture, has invested more into sprinting, unlike white Americans who still tend to consider sprinting a "black thing" and are less likely to gravitate to spiriting in the first place. If you've ever been to a track meet and have seen the 100m lineup, this is evident as the vast majority of the runners are black.

Yahrrrgghh!!! wrote:

When track season starts in JV or HS the coach sends most of the white kids to distance, and sends most of the black kids to sprints. From that point on, the culture develops that stays that way for your entire life. Could there be some really god white spinters? Sure, but it would take a couraeous HS student to say "I want to be a sprinter" and then hang out with the black kids. The cliques form early, very early indeed.

Blacks also mature earlier than whites. So besides genetics, that's another advantage at the high school level. Not PC to say this, but it's true nonetheless.

'The reason western hemisphere blacks are better sprinters is genetically they got passed down from slaves, who spent day after day picking cotton, reaching down and basically doing tons of lunges, over and over and over. '

I didn't realise evolution worked over 200 years

Chelseas Handle wrote:

Blacks also mature earlier than whites. So besides genetics, that's another advantage at the high school level. Not PC to say this, but it's true nonetheless.

That IS genetics.

I went to an all white high school and we had white sprinters. Some of them were quite good. I think the segregation of the races in this country blows a big hole in your theory.