apparently, it's all to do with something called genetics.
How dumb. If one has good genetics, one has good genetics. It’s not as if one can be a world class runner, yet a truly terrible cyclist. There are other explanations.
Cycling requires more muscles to be developed. If you have ever seen Kenyans then I would remind you that in the words of a great man "they look like skeletons with condoms over their heads".
Edit: Why was this downvoted? Was it racist? I am curious and if so I can remove it.
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A personal fear.
cycling is not in style, or groovy for so called black people. there would be no genetic component missing.
with swimming, buoyancy might be a factor, as in the abilty to float.
with high jumping, it's a pale white north euorpean dominated thing, with the 2 best jumpers of all time being of dark skin.
in golf, tiger woods, seemingly so called black dominant is not, he's thai so called 50%, but actually that is chinese, and his dad has chinese and native components, making tiger mostly chinese.
as mohammid ali was mixed blood more than they advertise...
and the so called black african decendents in america are a vast mix of arab, berber, moore, portugese, sub sahara, coastal tribes, etc.
so calling a person anything based on skin color, that's diatribe.
What the fvck are you talking about? Tiger Woods and Mo Ali were mixed? You are just coping cause racist you cant handle the fact that black people are good at a lot of sport. Black decendents in America are still(at least for the top Black athletes) mostly black. I am saying 70+ %. If you gotta be racist at least show your sh1t(prove it).
Cycling is a niche amateur hobby sport in Kenya but a growing subculture in bigger cities. INEOS is starting a cycling camp in Iten and the Safari Simbas (with Chris Froome's support) are hoping to develop riders who will one day compete in the big tours.
How fast can you cycle in a team against the clock? Yesterday, 12 teams sought to find this out over a 60 km distance, 457 m elevation gain and a lot of cros...
Iron sharpens iron! How a training ride with the pros can be brutal. They are out for a 4 hour training ride, they refuse to change their plan and kick Salim...
if you delve in the history of cycling, it was most popular in Europe and most cyclists started from poor families and poor areas, they took up cycling to escape their poor/dire circumstances, just like most athletes do
if you delve in the history of cycling, it was most popular in Europe and most cyclists started from poor families and poor areas, they took up cycling to escape their poor/dire circumstances, just like most athletes do
Yes, I imagine that in the early days in Europe, it wasn't such an expensive proposition.
But now days I wonder what part of the social stratum most cyclists emerge... simply because of the costs of equipment and the cost of competing in both time and money.
if you delve in the history of cycling, it was most popular in Europe and most cyclists started from poor families and poor areas, they took up cycling to escape their poor/dire circumstances, just like most athletes do
Yes, I imagine that in the early days in Europe, it wasn't such an expensive proposition.
But now days I wonder what part of the social stratum most cyclists emerge... simply because of the costs of equipment and the cost of competing in both time and money.
Well Chris Froome was pretty dirt poor even by Kenyan standards, and begged his Kenyan school teacher to lend him a bike. Then he becomes the richest Kenyan born sportsman in history. Doorbell Mo proves that East Africans have special genes, but lets ignore Chris Froome. Thoughtsleader will tell you that if conditions were different the best 1,000 cyclists in the world would all be Kalenji.
That may be true for parts of Africa however there are many parts that are not a desert. Further, how do you explain African Americans who live in the same cities as their white countrymen being so terrible at both. The United States is not created a lot of black professional athletes in either field. Add hockey to the mix
BINIAM GIRMAY from Eritrea, one of the best sprinters in the peleton, has won two stages and finished second in another in this years' Tour de France.
I watched the stage and the interviews at the end. Biniam Girmay comes across as a really nice guy.
He thanked his teammates, his parents, and when asked to explain his 2nd win, he gave a very good summary of what happened and why the finish... slightly uphill... worked to his advantage versus the heavier sprinters.
He comes across as the underdog who is both confident and humble. American track sprinters could learn a lot from how this cyclist handles success.
The sprinters this year seem pretty equally matched. I feel a little bad for Belgium’s Arnaud De Lie. The 22-year-old rookie has finished... I think... second twice and third once in the sprints. Yesterday, he had to sit up at the finish because there was no room for him to squeeze through between Girmay and 2nd place (Philipson?). De Lie is a sprinter to watch for the rest of the tour.
Congrats to Biniam Girmay!
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Go travel there. when you see how rough roads can be and how unsafe drivers are, you’ll understand why children do not grow up with bicycles. Money is an issue too, but I would say safety is non existent. Villagers already build their own dirt speed bumps to slow vehicles.
Bini is easy to like. He’s handled some career setbacks with grace and seems to come back stronger each time. And is a lot less likely to intentionally put another rider into danger in a bunch sprint than Jasper Disaster.
There’s also a certain fun in seeing a guy who everyone knew who was talented have a change to level up, just like Sepp Kuss at the Vuelta last year.
Yes, I imagine that in the early days in Europe, it wasn't such an expensive proposition.
But now days I wonder what part of the social stratum most cyclists emerge... simply because of the costs of equipment and the cost of competing in both time and money.
Well Chris Froome was pretty dirt poor even by Kenyan standards, and begged his Kenyan school teacher to lend him a bike. Then he becomes the richest Kenyan born sportsman in history. Doorbell Mo proves that East Africans have special genes, but lets ignore Chris Froome. Thoughtsleader will tell you that if conditions were different the best 1,000 cyclists in the world would all be Kalenji.
At 14 Froome moved out of Kenya to a boarding school in South Africa, genius. If you're going to comment on something you might want to actually know something about the subject.
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