Did you know that a freshman from India - not Indiana - won 2018 NCAA high jump last week

gf452 wrote:

Surprised there are more South Asian people on here. As a Sri Lankan (American) woman, I sometimes wonder if I am the only one of my demographic on this website.

There are fifteen black men, ten Latinos, seven Asian men and four black women on this site. You definitely are the only Sri Lankan female who has ever or will ever be on these boards. Aside from amateur cricket games waged on the baseball fields of America, I've never seen South Asians do any athletic and I live in the area of the country most densely populated by that demographic.

I once tutored an Indian guy who claimed to have run 10.5 in high school. He looked the part and knew a good deal about T&F, but had some strange explanations as to why he was wasting his time at our crappy community college.

Don’t make this an issue Brojo. All of the big powers recruit the World Junio ranks to find talent. As long as they are coached by Rovelto, the high jumper, male or female, could even be white and succeed.

I too am a rare Indian T&F fan on these forums, I think.

Sri Lanka and the nearby Indian state of Kerala have produced some world-class female athletes (Susanthika Jayasinge, P. T. Usha).

But I buy David Epstein's argument that both India & China with their billion-plus populations must have (even by random chance) every possible body type suited for each T&F event. It is just a matter of finding and incentivising those connections. The Chinese government does a much better job of it. Qatar & Baharain are doing so now in anticipation of global events in their area. UK did so before the London games.

I dont really care where he is from but i thought his gesture of riping his bib off his chest after clearing the winning height was kinda weak. I have seen much more entertaining celebrations from HJers. Maybe thats cool from where he is from and we (Americans) are just not hip to the scene.

sprcoach 19.99 wrote:

I dont really care where he is from but i thought his gesture of riping his bib off his chest after clearing the winning height was kinda weak. I have seen much more entertaining celebrations from HJers. Maybe thats cool from where he is from and we (Americans) are just not hip to the scene.

Yeah, well, your dog pisses on the concrete. Get over it.

no big deal, indians settled europe after the end of the last ice age

TheTrueKing wrote:

Really Bro wrote:

You calling rojo PC? Really Bro?

Indians are notoriously unathletic. Lichtenstein not necessarily.

As an Indian dude, I second this. One would think, in a region of 1.4 billion people, we'd have some good athletes, but there haven't been all that many, so it's genuinely surprising to see that an Indian guy won something.

We have other interests.