The following article in The Black World Today (and another in Africana.com)
addresses an aspect of TF athletes in the winter Olympics...
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Jon Entine
http://www.tbwt.com/views/specialrpt/specialrpt_0249.asp
Flowers Is No Fluke: Black Success In Bobsledding Part Of A Growing Winter
Oxymoron?
Flowers Is No Fluke: Black Success In Bobsledding Part Of A Growing Winter
Sport Tradition
The first ever gold medal victory by a black in the Winter Olympics...
How about ski jumping? Being very thin and having a strong push off the ramp
are very important. Explosive muscles fibers
Alan:
Unfortunately, Alan, your analysis is flawed and reflects as usual a
determined myopic and unscientific view of basic physiology and body types
by population.
For the record, I did not mention in this article genetic superiority.
That's an ignorant concept, one that I have always argued
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Subject: Re: t-and-f: Re: TF athletes in winter Olympics?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:05:03 -0800
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