I enjoyed the article but think in then end the conclusions are wrong. Stuff like this is what you want to believe when you are young.
Subway Surfers wrote:
The institutional structure of Ethiopian athletics, then, is very advanced. If the UK were to support hundreds of distance runners to train full-time in such a competitive group environment, I expect we would also be a force to be reckoned with in the distance events – and UK Sport would not want that success to be dismissed as a result of poverty or British weather.
I mean the US has that. Think about how many hundreds of kids are on NCAA scholarships. Guess what? They still get housed by African born runners.
If everyone in the world trains a ton and properly, then the winners end up being the most talented people. In the year 2018, it's hard to have a big training edge as the secrets are out there on the Internet.
What many peole never think about is if you have 100 runners do the same workouts, why are their 100 different results?