If Kenya had stayed a British colony, Britain would have had all the marathon WR...

Running is a leisure pursuit. Would be Kenyan runners would be infantry warriors.

You mean like ‘both’?

Kenya would still be Kenya and their athletes would still be Kenyan.

My parents, and all Kenyans born before 1963, were born British subjects. People alive know first-hand how it is to be treated as sub-human their own country. Don't even mention the thought.

Duh ?‍♂️ wrote:

Kenya would still be Kenya and their athletes would still be Kenyan.

What would've happened is Britain would have scouted and picked out the best and forced or paid them to compete under the Union Jack. France did this decades after the independence of its former colonies.

El Keniano wrote:

Duh ?‍♂️ wrote:

Kenya would still be Kenya and their athletes would still be Kenyan.

What would've happened is Britain would have scouted and picked out the best and forced or paid them to compete under the Union Jack.

In the case of Britain it would have been neither, but the paid bit is certainly occurring now with other countries. If Britain wanted to do that why aren't they doing it know?

If Kenya had remained a British colony then Kenyans would be running for Kenya under the Kenyan flag. You may have got some able to migrate to Britain if they had the job qualifications and then run for them after a qualifying period, but odds are they wouldn't be runners anyway.

"Forced" lol, you wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

What would've happened is Britain would have scouted and picked out the best and forced or paid them to compete under the Union Jack.

In the case of Britain it would have been neither, but the paid bit is certainly occurring now with other countries. If Britain wanted to do that why aren't they doing it know?

If Kenya had remained a British colony then Kenyans would be running for Kenya under the Kenyan flag. You may have got some able to migrate to Britain if they had the job qualifications and then run for them after a qualifying period, but odds are they wouldn't be runners anyway.

You think all those athletes with Nigerian surnames competing for Britain didn't have their citizenships fast-tracked? Lol. Nigeria and Kenya got independence from Britain around the same time, other than Chris Froome, why are there no athletes of Kenyan background competing for them?

Just because they have Nigerian sounding surnames doesn't mean they were fast tracked to become UK citizens for their athletic ability. FMD, most of them have never been to Nigeria and some went to UK as kids with their parents just as Mo Farah did.

You being a ginger haired chav who lives there should know all this.

As explained, there are no athletes of Kenyan background competing for them because Britain is not prepared to pay them or fast track them to become British citizens, unlike other countries.

You need to wake up to yourself.

If Kenya had remained a British colony, it would never have become corrupt enough to allow wide scale doping - which is behind most or all of Kenyan running success since Keino.

All the Italian coaches and EPO supplies would be in Ethiopia, which would be even more dominant. We're seeing something similar now with Uganda.

With modern air travel and globalization, perhaps Kenya would be more 'colonized' in terms of British and European settlers. More Chris Froomes etc. Perhaps the marathon record holder would now be a white Kenyan.

If Jamaica had stayed a British colony...

If the US had stayed a British colony...

The French policy was to harvest anyone who showed any discernible talent by 'rewarding' them with French citizenship, moving them to France and paying them a wage. That orchestrated drain is the reason why French-speaking parts of Africa are in much worse shape than the English-speaking parts.

El Keniano wrote:

My parents, and all Kenyans born before 1963, were born British subjects. People alive know first-hand how it is to be treated as sub-human their own country. Don't even mention the thought.

Well kiss my English grits mate. It's my thread, don't respond.

Eh. I think it would be a similar situation to Puerto Rico, while the Kenyans would be British citizens they'd compete for Kenya in international competitions. Hell, in the Commonwealth games, Britain still pretends its like 4 different nations.

El Keniano wrote:

The French policy was to harvest anyone who showed any discernible talent by 'rewarding' them with French citizenship, moving them to France and paying them a wage. That orchestrated drain is the reason why French-speaking parts of Africa are in much worse shape than the English-speaking parts.

More complete and absolute rubbish.

Most immigrants from Africa were/are unemployed or working in undesirable, unskilled or low-skilled occupations. They went/do go to France to do jobs the French were/are reluctant to accept, they got/get a better standard of living, plus opportunities to advance in areas they never could back home. FMD, why do think so many want to go to Europe, US, etc, don't you follow the frickin news?

You need to do a bit of research. wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

The French policy was to harvest anyone who showed any discernible talent by 'rewarding' them with French citizenship, moving them to France and paying them a wage. That orchestrated drain is the reason why French-speaking parts of Africa are in much worse shape than the English-speaking parts.

More complete and absolute rubbish.

Most immigrants from Africa were/are unemployed or working in undesirable, unskilled or low-skilled occupations. They went/do go to France to do jobs the French were/are reluctant to accept, they got/get a better standard of living, plus opportunities to advance in areas they never could back home. FMD, why do think so many want to go to Europe, US, etc, don't you follow the frickin news?

You really think all of Africa wants to move to Europe and the US?

Kipchoge and the likes would have been too busy watching Strictly Come Dancing and Premier Leages, regularly covering the distance of 4.2m from the couch to the beer on the fridge.

Maybe doping would be a bit more controlled, but Sir Eliud can always travel to Haile's hotel in neighboring Ethiopia and give a kungfu kick to the neck of married athlete couple that try to mess with him.

El Keniano wrote:

My parents, and all Kenyans born before 1963, were born British subjects. People alive know first-hand how it is to be treated as sub-human their own country. Don't even mention the thought.

the best i can come up with if el k is really a kenyan is he went to hillcrest...looks like the kinda self righteous annoying white privilege attitude. rich spoiled kenyan educated with other rich spoiled brits, got the privileged schooling that brits offered yet HATES white people with a passion, go figure right?

or he is the pasty ginger white privileged annoying guy from suburb of london, who vacations to kenya and wishes with all his heart he was kenyan. hates his pasty skin, full of white guilt, and hates his parents...and it was either pretend to be kenyan or join ISSIS in syria...so good thing he chose to pretend to be kenyan

colonizer wrote:

If Jamaica had stayed a British colony...

If the US had stayed a British colony...

Agree with this. dfa, dumb thread! You get worse and worse each day.

El Keniano wrote:

You need to do a bit of research. wrote:

More complete and absolute rubbish.

Most immigrants from Africa were/are unemployed or working in undesirable, unskilled or low-skilled occupations. They went/do go to France to do jobs the French were/are reluctant to accept, they got/get a better standard of living, plus opportunities to advance in areas they never could back home. FMD, why do think so many want to go to Europe, US, etc, don't you follow the frickin news?

You really think all of Africa wants to move to Europe and the US?

i dont know but they keep immigrating...wonder if this pic has anything to do with it?

as much as you hate whitey, you have to admit the reality...whites have prospered and lifted up the standard of living wherever they have lived, hate it or not its the truth. i mean imagine your life without the accomidations you have received from evil whitey. your private white privileged education....you think you would be this arrogant and mouthy if you didnt get that british education? what about electricity? running water? cars? nice roads? or let me guess you still live in your straw hut with no water or electricity and a dirt floor? how the hell are you posting on here is a mystery to all of us since you dont have wifi either right?

no you suck down the benefits of evil whitey, then complain and go on racists rants. to me its just like the annoying tree hugging morans. they rant about how humans are killing the earth while posting on their newst iphone19, without the slightest thought about the rare earth metals in their pretentious f*cking phones and how toxic it is to mine for those said metals. they drive their electric cars with a spoiled brat attitude not realizing how damaging it is to mine for lithium for those batteries, or how its COAL power plants that give their cars electricity. if they truly cared they would WALK, get off all electronics and live like a cave man.

same with you, if you hate whitey SO much, then stop using evil whiteys inventions. go back to your true kenyan roots and live in your straw hut. oh wait you cant do that, you like to b*tch and be a hypocrite isnt that right?