My theory why Africans are mostly superior to the rest of the world in distance running

1. Genetics - better body type for long distance running.

2. Large talent pool. Aspiring to be a professional distance runner in Africa is analogous to wanting to be a baseball/basketball/football player in the US or soccer player in Latin America. How many guys did you know in high school/college who were aspiring to be professional distance runners? There's just not enough money in it - although Africans can do much better given their ultra low cost of living.

1) access to dope freely

2) easy money for poor people

3) most are nothing special. As you can see all the top runners that come to the states and very few of them make it to the top even here. Chelimo kind of did ok, but he's been way surpassed by home grown talent. And there's 100s of these runner africans coming in...you'd think they'd dominate the US scene (according to the critical race theorists) but no. Much of the reason they don't dominate here is that they don't have as easy access to be able to dope. You can see when Chelimo et al where able to "train" in Kenya and then fly back to the US they had much better results. Now they're much less effective. We all know why.

twirler wrote:

1) access to dope freely

2) easy money for poor people

3) most are nothing special. As you can see all the top runners that come to the states and very few of them make it to the top even here. Chelimo kind of did ok, but he's been way surpassed by home grown talent. And there's 100s of these runner africans coming in...you'd think they'd dominate the US scene (according to the critical race theorists) but no. Much of the reason they don't dominate here is that they don't have as easy access to be able to dope. You can see when Chelimo et al where able to "train" in Kenya and then fly back to the US they had much better results. Now they're much less effective. We all know why.

Here are some examples of imported Africans that maybe dont dope and that their skill greatly improved in other countries

and your neighborhood

Speaking of Africans , Were slaves bred to be faster sprinters , jumpers etc? I don't believe in race, only breeding , so this is not racists.

twirler wrote:

1) access to dope freely

2) easy money for poor people

3) most are nothing special. As you can see all the top runners that come to the states and very few of them make it to the top even here. Chelimo kind of did ok, but he's been way surpassed by home grown talent. And there's 100s of these runner africans coming in...you'd think they'd dominate the US scene (according to the critical race theorists) but no. Much of the reason they don't dominate here is that they don't have as easy access to be able to dope. You can see when Chelimo et al where able to "train" in Kenya and then fly back to the US they had much better results. Now they're much less effective. We all know why.

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Try again, racist.

(1) genetic predisposition, (2) development of a high maximal oxygen uptake as a result of extensive walking and running at an early age, (3) relatively high hemoglobin and hematocrit, (4) development of good metabolic "economy/efficiency" based on somatotype and lower limb characteristics, (5) favorable skeletal-muscle-fiber composition and oxidative enzyme profile, (6) traditional Kenyan/Ethiopian diet, (7) living and training at altitude, and (8) motivation to achieve economic success.

Wilber RL, Pitsiladis YP. Kenyan and Ethiopian distance runners: what makes them so good? Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2012 Jun;7(2):92-102. doi: 10.1123/ijspp.7.2.92. PMID: 22634972.

now you know why

Simp wrote:

Speaking of Africans , Were slaves bred to be faster sprinters , jumpers etc? I don't believe in race, only breeding , so this is not racists.

Quite the opposite. Look at the last names in the NFL and NBA the past several years. First and second generation Nigerians and other west Africans are overrepresented compared to their population in the US and Europe.