Mennea and Borzov are poor examples of anything but what drugs
can do for you.
Mennea and Borzov are poor examples of anything but what drugs
can do for you.
Oh right, so everyone else in the 70's was clean?
When Borzov was at his peak, steroids weren't even illegal.
There is a Kenyan nordic skier. He sucks. There are also African cycling teams. They suck too.
Yup, those Kenyans are no more talented then anyone else-
http://www.pressrepublican.com/0300_sports/local_story_226000030.html
" In his first cross country race, Sammy Chelanga found himself alone in the woods and, concluding he had gotten lost, starting walking back.
It turned out he was all alone because he was so far ahead of the rest of the field.
"When my coach was trying to give me pre-race advice, trying to tell me how to run, the strategy, that made me so scared," the 22-year-old from Kenya said. "I was prepared for like a huge fight, to run so hard. So when the gun went off, I'm sprinting so hard, trying to find a place to run. So like I just kept going, and when I was in the woods, I realized, all these woods, I don't see anybody.
"So I say, 'This a bad race. Let me just ... go tell my coach I'm lost.' And then when I was just walking, I see these guys running right in front of me. And I just turned back, and I just kept on going."
Chelanga won that race "" the Fordham Invitational last fall "" and his next four races. He earned All-America honors in cross country and also had an excellent track season for Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Not bad for a kid who played table tennis in high school and didn't start running until he was 19. "
See, if we could only get our young kids playing Ping Pong when they were young, we'd be ok. Maybe the new Ping Pong movie (Balls of Fury ?) will motivate them!
Yep, West AND East Africans generally suck at swimming, cycling, skiing and triathlons. Oh wait: we aren't "supposed" to talk about THOSE genetic differences, are we? Just go back to whatever is acceptable banter I guess then...
Bottom line wrote:
Yep, West AND East Africans generally suck at swimming, cycling, skiing and triathlons. Oh wait: we aren't "supposed" to talk about THOSE genetic differences, are we? Just go back to whatever is acceptable banter I guess then...
Good morning Sir Lancelot.
Knowing Things wrote:
Bottom line wrote:Yep, West AND East Africans generally suck at swimming, cycling, skiing and triathlons. Oh wait: we aren't "supposed" to talk about THOSE genetic differences, are we? Just go back to whatever is acceptable banter I guess then...
Good morning Sir Lancelot.
WHy would that be me? Isn't the guy slamming me? That was the take I had on it, that he was saying: blacks aren't good at lots of other sports, but it's not PC to say whites are superior athletes in some sports, but it IS PC to say blacks are better than whites in sports. I think that was his point.
So..... you don't "know things" really, because you misunderstood the post and wrongly thought that it was me.
Why do Africans suck at the Javelin? Is it genetics?
"Finally, after high school, his brother chided him one day for not doing much and convinced Sammy to join him and his training partners "" who just happened to include legendary distance runner Paul Tergat.
Chelanga said the elite runners left him in the dust after a few strides, but he kept running with them and eventually noticed progress.
And one day he realized he was actually good at it."
From the same article - he was training with Paul Tergat dude what do you expect?