Starting to see more successful white sprinters

Isnt the reigning Olympic champion white

Boling was winning races this time last year too. Then we came to find he peaked very early. 

For that reason, I'd take his success in the indoor season with a grain of salt. Dont assume it translates to huge PRs outdoors because we might just see a repeat of last year. 

Jimmy the Greek redux.

People of West African decent still dominate sprints and speed sports.   doesn’t have anything to do with culture 

People of West African decent still dominate sprints and speed sports.   doesn’t have anything to do with culture 

this is why i never go on this forum anymore, tried to give it a shot with the new updates, but even filtering the running only forum this is the first post I see. A bunch of dorks arguing yet again with nothing better to do with their lives.

The white sprinter names ya need to know (not going back to the days of Archie Hahn etc)

Charles Paddock 1920 Olympic 100m champion

Allen Woodring 1920 Olympic 200m champion.....just am alternate, due to an illness he got his shot

Harold Abrahams/Eric Liddell Chariots of Fire 1924

Little Canadian Percy Williams all 126 pounds of him 1928 100/200 Olympic gold. Was sickly as a kid told by doctors to cool sports

Cy Leland a TCU running back tied the 9.5 world record. The 30's

Mel Patton first to run a 9,3 100 yards

Frank Wykoff first to run a 9.4 (Actually George Simpson but his starting blocks were jacked)

Hal Davis needs mention, he was the worlds fastest human in the early 40's, but no Olympics to star in, yep...bummer.

The last stand for the white sprinter with...Lindy Remigino 1952, Bobby Morrow 1956, Armin Hary 1960 all Olympic 100m gold medalists, now toss in Dave, Sime, Livio Burruti, Thane Baker, life was good. Where do I put Jackson Sholtz in all this?

Then here came the 60's and that was pretty much it for white sprinting with the USSR maschine exception.

Dartmouths Gerry Aahworth the last white to run on a USA Olympic 4x1 team, talking 1964. Last white USA Olympic sprinters Larry Questad in 1968 and Mark Lutz in 1976 both were 200m meter guys.

Now add....

Ben Vaughn the last white American to be world ranked at 100m, talking 70's

Have to mention....

Darel Newman beat Bob Hayes in a 60

Kevin Little 10.13

Marty Kruelee 10.18

Devin Quinn 10.00

John Teeters 10.00

Matt Boling will he be the first white American to bust the 10.00 barrier?

What do we do with Kenteris the Greek?

So we have had white sprinters, the bottom line is they simply can't run that 9.8/19.7 stuff and in football lack that size with speed combo.

You really couldn't make this point without calling me names and hurting my feelings? This isn't how decent people resolve a disagreement. 

This thread was the first thing you saw?Hard to believe that, but all you have to do is skip by it and go to a thread that wont get you upset.

its called freedom of choice.

it works well.

Who said we havent had white sprinters?

you didnt refute anything in my post.

Actually you said this....

especially the sprints, no matter if they're all black or not, but its nice to see other races or ethnic groups starting to break through to show they can do it too.

Starting to break through, really?

You are correct. And there is even more diversity when it comes to women in  sprinting.

Im regerring to sprinting since the 1960’s when we began to see blacks dominating the sprints. It goes without sayin g that whites were winning sprint races for a long time; for a long time there werent any or very few blacks participating.

For the last 50 years, black men and women have dominated American sprinting.

My point is, we are starting to see more whites in the sprints, including hurdles, and not only being competitive, but a threat to win. This is a big change from 10,20,30 years ago.

i think its good for track and field to have more people of different races feeling they can compete and getting involved.

That was my main point.