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Dagzd1973 said:
Most long distance champions these days are Kenyans/Africans. They've evolved to be able to run for long times without water and suffer less from fatigue. Look at Mo Farah, totally dominates the sport.

Obviously if you go back 20, 30, 40 years there were less Kenyans in the sport so less Kenyan champions, but nowadays with National sports funding and grants a lot more Africans get the chance to compete.

Some races are naturally better at things than others, that's just a fact. You'll never see an Eskimo long distance runner.
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The drugs programme helps as well.

maygo said:
I also read somewhere that the awful process of slavery ensured that only the biggest and strongest people would be picked and traded by the slave owners, and given the chance to procreate etc.
This has been dramatized on films such as 12 Years A Slave, and also on Django Unchained, where we saw slaves lined up and 'shown off' for having good physical attributes.
I also read that the reason there seem to be lots and lots of extremely attractive women from Eastern Europe is because of the wars that have occurred there. As the men all went off to war, some returned, some didn't. The ones that did return home were severely outnumbered by women, and could pick and choose the most attractive to 'make babies with', and the less attractive ones were left childless.

Dunno how true these theories are, but a good story teller never lets the truth get in the way
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Not that long a time in the evolutionary process.
 

Biscuitz said:
haven't read the thread so could have been mentioned, but Michael Johnson (the sprinter) theorised that blacks from the Caribbean and America mostly have ancestors who were brought over as slaves, the slaves were the biggest and toughest selected from west Africa as they were to do back breaking work, then the weakest of those strong ones died on the boat, then more of the weakest would have died in the fields in the U.S etc leaving a pretty strong bunch of folk which may have had an effect on their offspring
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Good point, survival of the fittest and all that.
 
Cockney Mackem said:
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Mock if you want daft lad :lol:. In the main Ethiopians are not from Bantu (negroid) origin but are Cushitic and self identity as Habesha.

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Small groups of Bantu people to exist in Ethiopia but are in the minority.
 
African kids run miles upon miles just to get to school and back, very few other continents have kids that do that. Haile Gebrselassie for example ran 10k to school every morning and did the same back home, kids in this country are pissed off if they have to walk a mile to school because mammy is busy or the SUV is in the garage getting fixed.
 
I’m pretty sure there’s a difference between east and west africans too. I can’t quite remember which one it is but I think East Africans are better at distance running and west Africans at sprinting? I could have that the wrong way around.
 
Gosforth Mackem said:
Obviously I'm well aware that in this day and age of offended individuals I'm running the risk.....but why are black people more than anyone else very good at sprinting etc and long distance running....obviously over the years I've watched lots of 100/200 metres finals and they're all black....so apart from Alan Wells got me thinking....is it a DNA thing ?

Im going to be banned aren't I :( it was honestly just an observation ...there must be something in their make-up
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American cops.
 
Smiler said:
African kids run miles upon miles just to get to school and back, very few other continents have kids that do that. Haile Gebrselassie for example ran 10k to school every morning and did the same back home, kids in this country are pissed off if they have to walk a mile to school because mammy is busy or the SUV is in the garage getting fixed.
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Been that way for thousands of years, not with school but with clean water/food. White Europeans invented aqueducts, wells etc where as Africans had to walk 10miles to the nearest water hole. They've evolved into endurance athletes and good runners where as we're used to everything being brought to us on a plate.
 
Dagzd1973 said:
Been that way for thousands of years, not with school but with clean water/food. White Europeans invented aqueducts, wells etc where as Africans had to walk 10miles to the nearest water hole. They've evolved into endurance athletes and good runners where as we're used to everything being brought to us on a plate.
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It must play a part, very well may be far.more to it but that must surely help. Conditioning over many years
 
Dagzd1973 said:
A better question would be... Why are White people so slow/shit at running?
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Wasn’t there a long spell where “roundness” aka fat was considered beauty and it showed the rich. So if we were eliminating thinner people that probably has something to do with it
 
mogget said:
Wasn’t there a long spell where “roundness” aka fat was considered beauty and it showed the rich. So if we were eliminating thinner people that probably has something to do with it
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It definitely plays a part, although I think the evolutionary traits (of being shit runners) were present long before modern civilisation. We (euros) evolved to deal with the cold, they evolved to run away from predators.
 
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