African Footballers 6 times more likely to die of sudden heart attack

All kinds of research has been done on blacks in sport and why they excell in certain athletic endeavors. Yes there is without question physical advantages, it's not all that gibberish about culture, social econ..blah blah blah.....it's about the physique. Just like the cheetah, the greyhoud, they are simply built to run fast, it really is no deeper than that. Then there's that size with speed like a Bo Jasckson, Usain Bolt. Look at that agility, quicks like a Barry Sanders, Tyreek Hill, Devin Hester, only blacks can run like that,

While this study isn't going that direction it does prove yes we do have differences.

^^^ that is rubbish, nobody is "built," they develop based on their environment. Euro and US whites are mostly wealthier and sit around on couches, cars, and in school and desk jobs, sedentary almost from birth.

The cultural exception to "weak" US whites is found in the never-ending stream of Mormon athletes from Utah, who have similar genetics to the other whites but are about 100 times as successful at sports because their religion forbids them the bad habits that make the others slow and weak.

As for soccer players, their sport isn't strenuous enough to be a serious cardiac risk. Basketball, maybe. But if any of the articles sloppy reasoning were founded in truth, the same effect would be seen in track, and it's not.

Wow, this report came from the BBC. I refused to continue reading after the first paragraph. It just doesn't make sense, the numbers don't convince me. Too many variables.

Bad Wigins wrote:

^^^ that is rubbish, nobody is "built," they develop based on their environment. Euro and US whites are mostly wealthier and sit around on couches, cars, and in school and desk jobs, sedentary almost from birth.

The cultural exception to "weak" US whites is found in the never-ending stream of Mormon athletes from Utah, who have similar genetics to the other whites but are about 100 times as successful at sports because their religion forbids them the bad habits that make the others slow and weak.

As for soccer players, their sport isn't strenuous enough to be a serious cardiac risk. Basketball, maybe. But if any of the articles sloppy reasoning were founded in truth, the same effect would be seen in track, and it's not.

Nope, a Greyhound is built whether it does anything or not. Sure they get more muscular with exercise but they are still Greyhounds. They don't look like pugs if they are sedentary.

I bet a large contributor is Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - a leading causes of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. Some studies suggest it's about 6x more prevalent in people of African descent.

Exthrower:

That was rather an emotional response.

A lot of the speed and lower body strength seen in black people can be attributed to having big butts. Any human physiology students or PA's care to chime in? There's no such thing as a sports gene in black people. They are not better at any sport, but what they may have more of is will to succeed and overcome situations of poverty due to systemic racism.

nonsense.

WestWould wrote:

A lot of the speed and lower body strength seen in black people can be attributed to having big butts. Any human physiology students or PA's care to chime in? There's no such thing as a sports gene in black people. They are not better at any sport, but what they may have more of is will to succeed and overcome situations of poverty due to systemic racism.

lol

Probably more likely due to heat stress than genetics.

There's some truth to that. It's also rarely mentioned (probably for reasons of Political Correctness) that whites and Asians tend to have more flexible blood vessels. For example, if their arteries become compressed in a situation, they open up more quickly than those of black people. This was a factor in some police departments getting rid of the 'bar arm' hold to subdue combative suspects. A much higher percentage of black suspects went into cardiac arrest than white or Hispanic (or other) suspects.

exthrower wrote:

WestWould wrote:

A lot of the speed and lower body strength seen in black people can be attributed to having big butts. Any human physiology students or PA's care to chime in? There's no such thing as a sports gene in black people. They are not better at any sport, but what they may have more of is will to succeed and overcome situations of poverty due to systemic racism.

Strength and speed are both measurable. we know that Blacks have no more lower body strength than Whites. Speed is a different story.

No, blacks on average have more "explosiveness" in certain leg movements than Whites, but Whites tend to have more strength in certain leg movements than blacks. This has been known for decades.

Could also be due to a higher incidence of periodontal disease.

Blacks have big caring hearts while whites have small cold ones. Blacks are simply too good-hearted for this cruel world.

Gideon Ariel wrote:

exthrower wrote:

Strength and speed are both measurable. we know that Blacks have no more lower body strength than Whites. Speed is a different story.

No, blacks on average have more "explosiveness" in certain leg movements than Whites, but Whites tend to have more strength in certain leg movements than blacks. This has been known for decades.

So is that explosivness tied to having big butts? Look at any top sprinter, RB, or athletic basketball player. They will 9/10 have a massive dump truck. White people just aren't built like that generally.

This is so obvious: Africans are getting their PEDs off the street, while Euros have their "doctors".

Easy access to PEDs and a desire to move up n the world.

Greyhound is a breed of dog. That means it was inbred for many generations to isolate a very specific phenotype. That doesn't happen with people, except apparently you, the idiot breed.

PEDS, duh!