lollerama wrote:
ppiper wrote:
ping pong and diving is dominated by 99% white westerners?? Lol those are asian dominated sports.
He was wrong about tennis, too. Yes, almost all of the dominating players are white, but Western... not so much.
And diving is dominated by the Chinese.
Mo was training fodder for Mottram at that point. Just one of a group of athletes there to pace part of Mottram's workouts because none of them would be capable of doing the whole session with him. Massive improvement in a short time after that ...
El Keniano wrote:
Never ceases to amaze how the one sport dominated by Africans causes such consternation, head scratching and analytics aimed at finding funding for science to help reduce their presence. The worst part is that it is often implied that the dominance is “bad for the sport” when no one raises a single question about swimming, cycling, tennis, white-water rafting, ping pong, kayaking, diving or any of the other 99% of sports dominated by white westerners.
I think Mottram’s and Salazar’s comments in that video were in bad taste.
Not sure if you're aware of this, but the West has more money than African countries. This is why NIKE markets running primarily to whites.
3 for 3 wrote:
lollerama wrote:
He was wrong about tennis, too. Yes, almost all of the dominating players are white, but Western... not so much.
And diving is dominated by the Chinese.
Alright then, you bunch of pedantic geniuses. Way to miss my point but scratch ping pong and replace it with the more high-octane golf, billiards, bowling and super exciting winter sports such as curling. Did you even bother to read my post?
Look, Kenyans and Ethiopians being better at running than the rest of the world put together may be a sore sport for most of you, but it's no worse for running than the Norwegian domination of cross country skiing or Dutch domination of speed skating are for those sports. But I do somehow understand the racists' bitterness and frustration - what with running being the true basis and measure for all athletic activity as it is the one sport that comes naturally to all human beings. And until those wretched Kenyans and Ethiopians discovered in the 1960s that they could beat the world, it used to be dominated by the 'right' kind of people. Oh dear, imagine having to endure a molestation of black skin on their running events. Whatever will they do now, short of forming inferior running leagues devoid of Kenyans and Ethiopians, to lord it once again over those poor third world folks?
El Keniano wrote:
3 for 3 wrote:
And diving is dominated by the Chinese.
Alright then, you bunch of pedantic geniuses. Way to miss my point but scratch ping pong and replace it with the more high-octane golf, billiards, bowling and super exciting winter sports such as curling. Did you even bother to read my post?
Look, Kenyans and Ethiopians being better at running than the rest of the world put together may be a sore sport for most of you, but it's no worse for running than the Norwegian domination of cross country skiing or Dutch domination of speed skating are for those sports. But I do somehow understand the racists' bitterness and frustration - what with running being the true basis and measure for all athletic activity as it is the one sport that comes naturally to all human beings. And until those wretched Kenyans and Ethiopians discovered in the 1960s that they could beat the world, it used to be dominated by the 'right' kind of people. Oh dear, imagine having to endure a molestation of black skin on their running events. Whatever will they do now, short of forming inferior running leagues devoid of Kenyans and Ethiopians, to lord it once again over those poor third world folks?
El Keniano, happy new year mate, but I'm pretty sure Norwegians dominate cross country skiing because they're all doping and I'm pretty sure zee Dutchies dominate speed skating because, you guessed it, they're all doping. Hint, hint, notice a trend.
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:
El Keniano, happy new year mate, but I'm pretty sure Norwegians dominate cross country skiing because they're all doping and I'm pretty sure zee Dutchies dominate speed skating because, you guessed it, they're all doping. Hint, hint, notice a trend.
? Another year same as all others here at LetsRun. ??
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