Interesting: 2024 was the first Olympics since 1964 that a male Kalenjin runner didn't win gold for Kenya

Coevett wrote:

Fdie wrote:

Furthermore, what Velzian said back then was that the Nandi and Kipsigis (both are Kalenjin) are the mid distance men. And he said the Kisii are the long distance men because they live “in a hilly terrain.” So what if the Brit was not entirely correct. He wouldn’t be the first or the last. Aren’t you a Brit?

So he got it completely wrong? If I posted a 1910 sports article in which a scientific racist predicted that West Africans would dominate distance running, and East Africans sprinting, would you say.he was 'largely correct'?

Velzian was the first to claim that East Africans were 'natural born runners', and he turned it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by single-handedly developing distance running in Kenya - probably with the help of doping,.and certainly the advantage of professionalism afforded to elite East Africans in the amateur era.

Coaches, managers, and talent scouts have long focused on the Kalenji. There is also something of a Kalenji mafia like control of distance running in Kenya, making it difficult for other tribes to enter.

Fdie wrote:

Coevett wrote:

So he got it completely wrong? If I posted a 1910 sports article in which a scientific racist predicted that West Africans would dominate distance running, and East Africans sprinting, would you say.he was 'largely correct'?

Velzian was the first to claim that East Africans were 'natural born runners', and he turned it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by single-handedly developing distance running in Kenya - probably with the help of doping,.and certainly the advantage of professionalism afforded to elite East Africans in the amateur era.

Coaches, managers, and talent scouts have long focused on the Kalenji. There is also something of a Kalenji mafia like control of distance running in Kenya, making it difficult for other tribes to enter.

You always have an agenda so it is difficult to trust you, as your agenda triggers deception from you. Velzian believed back then that the African had greater potential in sport than most because “he has not been enervated by so-called civilized living, but has been conditioned or accept a very severe physical existence.” And yes he also believed that relatively longer legs conferred benefits.

Coevett wrote:

Fdie wrote:

Furthermore, what Velzian said back then was that the Nandi and Kipsigis (both are Kalenjin) are the mid distance men. And he said the Kisii are the long distance men because they live “in a hilly terrain.” So what if the Brit was not entirely correct. He wouldn’t be the first or the last. Aren’t you a Brit?

So he got it completely wrong? If I posted a 1910 sports article in which a scientific racist predicted that West Africans would dominate distance running, and East Africans sprinting, would you say.he was 'largely correct'?

Velzian was the first to claim that East Africans were 'natural born runners', and he turned it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by single-handedly developing distance running in Kenya - probably with the help of doping,.and certainly the advantage of professionalism afforded to elite East Africans in the amateur era.

Coaches, managers, and talent scouts have long focused on the Kalenji. There is also something of a Kalenji mafia like control of distance running in Kenya, making it difficult for other tribes to enter.