Coevett wrote:
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:Race is getting way off task. But what do do we call Juantorena? My father always claimed he was black, I always thought he was white-to mixed.
Yes it is. It is an un-pc explanation as to why 800m times haven't progressed so much though because the 800m is the event that has least been dominated by either afro-americans/west africans or east africans respectively. Therefore, if times across the board have declined (or at least the speed of progression) in the USA and Europe/Aus/NZ, you would expect the 800m times to have progressed the slowest worldwide.
As far as Juantorena is concerned he doesn't look like he has much black ancestry. He could be 100% Hispanic Cuban.
Race is entirely made up and purely subjective in the eyes of the observer. It's a psuedo-classification that means nothing and explains nothing.