Down with IDMC wrote:
Armin Hary was from Bavaria and most of the top German sprinters were from that region of Germany. In ancient times the area was conquered by the Roman army. I recall Jon Etiene talking about Italians having the only non West African top times in the short sprints ie Mennea. But the sample size is truly too tiny to make any statistical inference.
Try this on for size then: Jamaica's Trelawny Parish (population 74,000) is the birthplace of : world record holder, Usain Bolt, Voletta Wallace, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Marvin Anderson, Ricardo Chambers, Omar Brown, Michael Frater, Lerone Clarke, Dane Hyatt, Rosemarie Whyte, Michael Greene, Inez Turner, Debbie-Ann Parris, Sanya Richards, Ben Johnson and Warren Weir.
Also: 2008 USA Today High School Basketball Player of the Year Samardo Samuels, now playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, University of Connecticut basketball player Kentan Facey, and star safety for the Green Bay Packers Atari Bigby.
Irie, mon.