ts very interesting how whites try to misrepresent kenyans in terms of their physical attributes whereas study after study shows that in terms of autosomal DNA kenyans are almost identical to other sub-saharan populations i.e west and southern africans albeit with nilotic and cushitic(horner) admixture meaning......they have more of fast twitch muscle fibres,higher bone density,low fat,higher testosterone levels and longer limbs than whites......however it is quite observable that on average whites tend to be bigger than most sub-saharan blacks maybe due to better nutrition.
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Cheserek Fairly muscular for a Kenyan
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Lomong is NOT a Kenyan!!!!!!!! wrote:
malmo wrote:
and exactly where did the Kalenjin people emigrate from? oh yeah, what is now Sudan. The Cheserek and Lomong come from the same people...
...but not a Kenyan.
Lopez Lomong, Peter Lomong, and Alex Lomong are Buya people from the southeastern corner of South Sudan.
Crash course in anthropology:
The Buya people are very closely related to the lip plate-wearing Mursi people and stick-fighting Suri people that you see on National Geographic and BBC documentaries. Boya, Didinga, Mursi, and Suri are all Surmic peoples.
Surmic peoples are not Nilotic peoples. They speak Surmic and Nilotic languages, respectively. Despite being distinct, they are both relatives of each other, meaning that they share many linguistic and cultural similarities.
The Surmic and Nilotic groups of languages both belong to the wider Eastern Sudanic language branch.
Just imagine if we can get more Surmic peoples like the Mursi and Suri to run track and XC.
Some runners from Darfur are also pretty fast. There's Ismail Ahmed Ismail, Mohamed Babiker Yagoub, and Yagoub's nephew Waleed Suliman (currently running for the University of Mississippi).
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Probably from western diet and healthcare (avoidance of typical maladies seen in Kenya- malaria, etc) Maybe allowed his body to develop more, as well as likely lifted weights in his hs and university programs. Most Kenyans have no access to something like that.
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Probably from western diet and healthcare (avoidance of typical maladies seen in Kenya- malaria, etc) Maybe allowed his body to develop more, as well as likely lifted weights in his hs and university programs. Most Kenyans have no access to something like that.
In his autobiography, Lopez Lomong also mentioned how his American foster mother stuffed him with food, making him look more like a stocky football player than a typical distance runner. But in a refugee camp in Kenya, he often had to go without food.
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