I mean who is the distance running equivalent of Jackie Robinson.
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I don't just mean who was the first black guy to ever run long distance. Jackie Robinson wasn't the first black MLB player either.
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Billy Mills
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Henry Rono
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Abede Bikila or whatever the barefoot dude's name is
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Jeremy Wariner
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Galen Rupp
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Ted Corbitt
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America is STILL waiting for an American-born runner to break the "color barrier." Distance running is still a white man's sport in America. Sure there are foreign-born black American runners (Lagat, Lomong, Meb, Maree), and there are black mid-distance runners, but we're still waiting for a GREAT long-distance black runner born in the USA.
In America, distance running has progressed about as far as skiing in terms of being for the white privileged man. -
America the brave wrote:
America is STILL waiting for an American-born runner to break the "color barrier." Distance running is still a white man's sport in America. Sure there are foreign-born black American runners (Lagat, Lomong, Meb, Maree), and there are black mid-distance runners, but we're still waiting for a GREAT long-distance black runner born in the USA.
In America, distance running has progressed about as far as skiing in terms of being for the white privileged man.
Agree with this. Foot Locker still pretty much looks like a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. -
Wrong
Anyone can run, but african american culture just does not find any interest in long distance running (generally).
America the brave wrote:
America is STILL waiting for an American-born runner to break the "color barrier." Distance running is still a white man's sport in America. Sure there are foreign-born black American runners (Lagat, Lomong, Meb, Maree), and there are black mid-distance runners, but we're still waiting for a GREAT long-distance black runner born in the USA.
In America, distance running has progressed about as far as skiing in terms of being for the white privileged man. -
Bob Kennedy
Kip Keino
Throwing- Reese Hoffa -
Marielle Hall
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A better question would be who is the Jackie Robinson of track and field ? Why limit it to distance running ? and the answer is Jesse Owens.
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Emmanuel Adebayor wrote:
Jackie Robinson wasn't the first black MLB player either.
Yes. That's because the entity "Major League Baseball" (MLB) didn't exist in the era Robinson played for Brooklyn and Walker for Toledo. -
Marielle Hall could be that American-born runner to break the "color barrier". She won the NCAA 10K outdoor title and finished 4th at US Nationals I think.
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Abebe Bekele
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Used to be Rono wrote:
Emmanuel Adebayor wrote:
Jackie Robinson wasn't the first black MLB player either.
Yes. That's because the entity "Major League Baseball" (MLB) didn't exist in the era Robinson played for Brooklyn and Walker for Toledo.
Yes it did
MLB was founded in 1869 -
Actually MLB was founded in 1876 when the National League was founded.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7UJqnClWxw
Global TV Olympics Barefoot Floodlights
like JR he was not the first but he made a lasting impact as well as a breakthrough moment.
Special Mention Ted Corbitt
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Deadman Running wrote:
A better question would be who is the Jackie Robinson of track and field ? Why limit it to distance running ? and the answer is Jesse Owens.
No, that's not a better question. And that wouldn't be the answer anyway.
