slow your roll son wrote:
Whoa, overreact a lot? "fck off"?
I said 6 feet to 7 feet tall olympic marathon runners, not 6'7" feet elite runners.
I don't know a lot of elite 6'1" runners. Solinsky...who else? The elite marathoners are about 5'6", right? Then the milers are about 5'9" and elite sprinters, except for Bolt, are 5'9" also.
This is pointless.
The comparison was a 20min 5k vs dunking.
Dunking is heavily dependent on height. Being average height or even +1std above average height requires a huge vertical, higher than that which average NFL and NBA combine participants reach.
A 20min 5k does not have nearly the same selection. Many more people accomplish it and it is certainly not height dependent. Height isn't a trainable quality. That's why the comparison is retarded.
Who cares if nobody 6'7" has won a marathon? That is already a tiny portion of the overall population, so it is rare that it would happen in the first place. Across the world, 5'6" is well within 'normal' height and not even outside of the 1st standard deviation in many populations. 6'7" is something like 3std deviations outside of it. It is a ridiculous comparison. Sure, someone 6'7" may never win an elite marathon. That has nothing to do with the fact that most able bodied males can run a 20min 5k nor anything to do with the fact that dunking ability is more dependent on height than it is training.