Which single statistic best captures the complete dominance of male East African distance runners?

Tolcan wrote:

Here's one to get started though I'm sure there are stats out there which make this point even more powerfully.

A male runner from East Africa has finished first in the London Marathon every year since 2003.

Doesn't that also go for every major marathon since 2003? Except for the 2004 Olympics.

Too lazy to google but the sheer number of East African men who run a marathon under 2:08 every year puts the US to shame

Marilson Gomes dos Santos won a couple NYC Marsthons, I think in 2007-2008

Italian doctors

Just pull up the all time lists for any distance event and you will get a great picture of the dominance.

"The Bad-Wigins-shaved-balda$$headed-rapid-heat-dissipating-theory" for the Kenyan's

Short curly hair for the Ethiopians and Moroccans, the curly hair creates a wind vortex which gives them a tail wind and everyone else a head wind.

It's all about what up topside.

The year Radcliffe ran 2:15, she was the fastest runner in the UK including men.

Make a list of the fastest marathon runner performances, and stop just before the first non East African-born appears.

P.S. See http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mmaraok.htm

Galen rupp lost to infinitely more east africans than he did to males from any other country in rio

The best statistic is how many of them make up foreign teams these days.

In 2016, 78 fastest men's marathon times were run by athletes of East-African origin.

https://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/road-running/marathon/outdoor/men/senior/2016

One of these

http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mmaraok.htm

http://www.alltime-athletics.com/m3000hok.htm

Are there any east african runners that have won races that are not taking epo?

the second 5k split of the WR 10K

% of East African runners who are coached by Italian coaches who have access to Italian doctors and the pharma companies that produce epo...that would be 100%.

It's all about Italy wrote:

% of East African runners who are coached by Italian coaches who have access to Italian doctors and the pharma companies that produce epo...that would be 100%.

You do know that you are openly inviting in Rekrunner, Renato and the entire Nike PR department to denying this. Thanks alot another thread destroyed, might as well invite in Calculo while we're at it.

American Chelimo's wrote:

The best statistic is how many of them make up foreign teams these days.

Here's a stat: 98% of ADP / WCAP's roster in Colorado Srings are made up of Africans

I wouldn't turn a thread about statistics into a doping thread. I would love to talk purely statistics. I guess you fear that I might point out the reality of the existence of Irish and Dutch coaches in East Africa. Or that Italian athletes also have access to Italian coaches, doctors, and pharma companies. I can't imagine that there exists a single statistic about doping that distinguishes East Africans from all others, that could also be described as "best captures the complete dominance".Timothy Noakes, in the Lore of Running, examines Kenyan dominance specifically (in "Learning from the Experts" chapter), coming up with 11 amazing statistics to highlight the dominance of East Africans generally, and specifically the depth of dominance of the Kenyans, most of these of Kalenjin origin, versus the rest of the world.Here are a few, just from Cross-Country:1) In the 1988 World Cross-Country Championships, in the senior men's race, East Africans took 10 out of the top 10 places. In the junior men's race, East Africans took 7 out of the top 7, and 8 out of the top 10, not counting one Kenyan athlete disqualified, who would have placed second.2) On five occasions (before 2002), 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, and 1996, the finishes of the top six Kenyans would have beaten a "world" team composed of the top six finishes from the rest of the world combined (including Ethiopians).3) Vincent Sarich, a New Zealand biologist working at UC Berkeley, performed a statistical analysis, calculating that Kenyans outperform the rest of the world combined, in cross-country running, by a factor of about 1700. This means, for the European male population, he estimated about 1 elite athlete per 20 million males, whereas for Kalenjin runners, there are 80 elite athletes per one million.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

It's all about Italy wrote:

% of East African runners who are coached by Italian coaches who have access to Italian doctors and the pharma companies that produce epo...that would be 100%.

You do know that you are openly inviting in Rekrunner, Renato and the entire Nike PR department to denying this. Thanks alot another thread destroyed, might as well invite in Calculo while we're at it.