Re: t-and-f: Re: T&F athletes in winter Olympics?

2002-02-23 Thread alan tobin
;m a controvertial man" remarks, or your very well thought out main ideas, which I fully agree with. Alan >From: Jon Entine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Jon Entine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: alan tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, t-and-f-digest ><[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: t-and-f: Re: T&F athletes in winter Olympics?

2002-02-23 Thread Jon Entine
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

Re: t-and-f: Re: T&F athletes in winter Olympics?

2002-02-23 Thread alan tobin
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 fib

t-and-f: Re: T&F athletes in winter Olympics?

2002-02-23 Thread Jon Entine
The following article in The Black World Today (and another in Africana.com) addresses an aspect of T&F athletes in the winter Olympics... -- Jon Entine http://www.tbwt.com/views/specialrpt/specialrpt_0249.asp Flowers Is No Fluke: Black Success In Bobsledding Part Of A Growing Winter Spor