RE: Author Jon Entine: "Athletes of African ancestry hold every major running record, from the 100m to the marathon"

Disagree.

Ryun has held all 3 middle distance world records since the summer of 1967.

I seem to recall that in Entine's book he claimed that a non-African (that is, someone of African ancestry) would never run sub-10 in the 100 and that soon there would be no non-Africans in the NBA.

The "Sports Gene" did a better job as explaining the complexity of how genetics could affect athletic performance. Entine seemed to make extreme conclusions just to stir things up.

Your post is so oooops 1989.

Taboo came out in 2001.

Paula Radcliffe's first WR came the next year.

oops.

Can not think of a worse

self loathing liberal p***y

Mental illness that is eating away

at amerika. self fulfilling prophecy.

Make sure to catch his next lecture

at a university near you.....

1.

What about hicham.....

2.

Kenny b. is not exactly phenotype he is

describeing .

3.

What about every single one of them

being loaded to gills with peds.

Entine deals in fiction and those

peds give him exactly that.

What if these european minds never

given us steroids ,epo ,peptides

,gw501516.

what would progressing of these records b

Name one human being whose parents are not direct ancestors of Africa.

He meant males. He also deals in generalities and looking at the surface of the stats. He never dwelt into why these stats are so skewered. Ie socialization, economics, culture or any of the three with genetics. Also how would explain Patrick Johnson(mixed race no African blood), Ryan Bailey(mixed race), Lemaitre or the new Canadian( mixed race).

Yes drugs is how you would explain it.

Stats skewed and morals.

Patrick johnson( aberation )

Bailey ( big fat doper )

Lemaitre ( doper )

New canadiam guy( doper)

all IGF -1 lr3 heads

the most important ped to hit sprinting.

Bekele ( CERA the best epo )

Same for Wariner .(cera the differece)

Micheal johnson (steroids but epo the

differece to wining streak and w.r. )

Current 800m w.r ( gw501516 the key before banned )

coach d wrote:

Taboo came out in 2001.

Paula Radcliffe's first WR came the next year.

oops.

Thousands have ran faster than the athlete you name and you are only reinforcing the "genetics are key" arguments by using this example.

runnah wrote:

coach d wrote:

Taboo came out in 2001.

Paula Radcliffe's first WR came the next year.

oops.

Thousands have ran faster than the athlete you name and you are only reinforcing the "genetics are key" arguments by using this example.

^^^ It seems that you can't comprehend the fact that Paula Radcliffe is a woman. Yes, loads of men have run faster than her at the marathon but no other woman in history has run within 3 minutes of Paula's world record. That means that no African woman has run within 3 minutes of her 2:15:25. Suck it cause you're wrong...her world record is by far one of the most impressive in running.

Pietro Mennea

Every human being is 100% African you retards.

Does he give any defense of why he ignores women in this analysis?

That quote treads perilously close to saying that athletes of African descent are lazy, but succeed despite that because of their genes.

I am a believer in the genetics argument, but I also feel like better genetics mean that you are able to train at a higher level as well. It's not like they just kick in on race day. Bekele's workouts are untouchable by any athlete of European descent.

Hicham El Guerrouj is Caucasian.

In an alternate universe a simplistic retort such as yours might justifiably end every discussion. But we don't live in that universe.A significant part of human evolution occurred outside of Africa, not shared by the populations that currently are native to Africa. For example, humans outside of Africa have notable chunks of Neanderthal DNA, not present in current day Africans.In an example of genetic differentiation known to be specific to sprinting ability the rs1815739 mutation of the ACTN3 gene is less prevalent in African populations than in European and especially in Asian populations. This mutation suppresses the development of fast twitch muscle fiber.Genetic differences don't explain everything, but they don't explain nothing, either.

HGP wrote:

Every human being is 100% African you retards.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

That quote treads perilously close to saying that athletes of African descent are lazy, but succeed despite that because of their genes.

I am a believer in the genetics argument, but I also feel like better genetics mean that you are able to train at a higher level as well. It's not like they just kick in on race day. Bekele's workouts are untouchable by any athlete of European descent.

Hicham El Guerrouj is Caucasian.

He's all African.

egegeg wrote:

But are Ethiopians black or middle eastern? How black does someone need to be to have an advantage genetically?

Are Italians white? How about Spaniards? Russians? If we were to think like you only pure blooded northern Europeans would be considered white.

El Keniano wrote:

Are Italians white? How about Spaniards? Russians? If we were to think like you only pure blooded northern Europeans would be considered white.

How does one get such poor reading comprehnsion like you?

alanson wrote:

In an example of genetic differentiation known to be specific to sprinting ability the rs1815739 mutation of the ACTN3 gene is less prevalent in African populations than in European and especially in Asian populations. This mutation suppresses the development of fast twitch muscle fiber.

Is there proof that mutation suppresses ft fiber?