Segregation in Track and Field: Black Kids=sprinters Rich White Kids=distance runners

I'm Asian... Asian American. My parents emigrated here from one of the lesser-known Asian places.

I'm going to use my identity politics to get sponsors! (In my dreams), but it could work if I was talented enough. You know what I mean.

Don't forget about us!

I forgot to mention I'm also a middle-distance person. I specialize in the 800m.

Between the two extremes, white and black, there is brown (aka me).

Name in Hiding wrote:

I forgot to mention I'm also a middle-distance person. I specialize in the 800m.

Between the two extremes, white and black, there is brown (aka me).

BroJos like David Epstein and they like his book. I read about twenty pages of his book in B&N a few years ago. Epstein was a journalism major or something close. His science is weak and Epstein's statistical analysis is not rigorous. Since Epstein is not a mathematician schooled in rigorous statistics, since Epstein isn't a medical doctor, since Epstein isn't a proven athlete, since Epstein isn't a proven coach, since Epstein isn't a physiologist, since Epstein isn't a biologist, I put little to no weight in his writings regarding sport science.

He looks like a long-distance runner though...

Wow Rojo are you serious?

I saw 1/2 of the Rochester, MN library devoted to a study on genetics. A white person is as likely to have the same genetics as a black person. That study was done in the early 2000s. Remember the famous Mayo Clinic is located in Rochester, MN.

The reason why the one region in Kenya has outstanding distance runners is because of culture and expectations.

NO one questions why the same high schools and colleges win year after year. It's often culture and expectations.

ironside wrote:

BroJos like David Epstein and they like his book. I read about twenty pages of his book in B&N a few years ago. Epstein was a journalism major or something close. His science is weak and Epstein's statistical analysis is not rigorous. Since Epstein is not a mathematician schooled in rigorous statistics, since Epstein isn't a medical doctor, since Epstein isn't a proven athlete, since Epstein isn't a proven coach, since Epstein isn't a physiologist, since Epstein isn't a biologist, I put little to no weight in his writings regarding sport science.

Nice. 8/10

I think you might want to eat some crow here. This post makes LRC look very bad!

rojo wrote:

Every country has good white sprinters besides America? Really?

I'll answer your questions and another one. Why does Kenya have horrible black sprinters? It's very simple. It's called genetics.

This should help you out:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2013/07/sports-gene-by-david-epstein-a-must-read-for-all-coaches/

Some people are better made for certain sports and positions in sports. Why don't you start a thread entitled, "Why are there no 6'1 centers in the NBA?"

It amazes me that people think all humans are the same genetically.

Old Fart Coach answers to Rojo's comments very well:

Finally, I think you are giving skin color too much attention/credit for what you see as a problem. Maybe someday society will eventually let go of it. Maybe when we are all somewhere around a brownish-yellow color?

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6288312#ixzz4p8hcCP9l

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I think a retraction by Rojo is in order here. Do you really think it's all just

genetics?

I'm taking a genetics course right now...

What I'm learning is:

- Behavior in humans is shaped due to genes and the environment

- Phenotypic and Genotypic variability in populations are due to: migration, sexual selection, mutations, genetic drift, and large populations

-In order to account for melanin production, you have to look at ancestry and what kind of lifestyle they lived to naturally develop that pigmentation

-There's also mitochondrial DNA from the mother, but I don't think it's inheritance plays a major role in athletes. Have you ever heard of a super baby being able to crawl for 30 minutes without taking a break?!

I think the potential of an athlete in the shorter distances is more genetic. As you increase the distance from 400 meters to marathon distance, the BMI goes from like 25.0 to 18.0. Optimal niches are found at BMIs for T&F events.

The possibility of developing muscles is genetic. But proteins in the human bodies all have the same purpose: to build or aid in contraction/movement.

So it's not all genetic as we have the ability to work on our own physiology.