Randall--it is what I know. They won the Olympic gold medal, which was
merely a slip of keyboard. Either way, the point is made: your "thesis" is
pure speculation and conflicts with all the evidence. Mine is congruent with
all the evidence.
On 4/13/01 3:10 AM, "Randall Northam" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone who follows soccer knows that Olympic games to World cup is
like Goodwill Games to Olympics in Athletics.
A brief look at the current FIFA ranking shows that the top two african countries
are South Africa (22nd) and Morocco (30th) - both are powerhouses as far as distance
running is
on 13/4/01 3:26 PM, Jon Entine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Randall--it is what I know. They won the Olympic gold medal, which was
merely a slip of keyboard. Either way, the point is made: your "thesis" is
pure speculation and conflicts with all the evidence. Mine is congruent with
all the
Randall:
Rather than QUESTIONING my scholarship why don't you actually take the book
out of the library and CRITIQUE it. Otherwise you will continue to make
statements that are not supported by the facts, such as that Kenyans have a
great body type for soccer, a fact that you are now apparently
Randall:
Rather than QUESTIONING my scholarship why don't you actually take the book
out of the library and CRITIQUE it. Otherwise you will continue to make
statements that are not supported by the facts, such as that Kenyans have a
great body type for soccer, a fact that you are now apparently
Well, it's old news that Kenyans, mainly Kalenjin's, dominate distance
running today. Their evolution has made them superb distance runners. They
have lived at altitude for millions of years. They have lived a harder
existance than say the American silver platter life. I would like to make
Oleg:
Actually, there is every reason to elieve there is a genetic component to
that as well, but it's too long to get into here. The difference, however,
is that the Kenyan example provides statistical evidence, but that is only a
small fraction of the evidencethe rest is based on
Alan. Of course, you make great points. But don't expect a person of West
African ancestry to ever win a marathon -- they have such small, genetically
determined lung capacity and huge percentage of fast twitch muscles and
other anatomical and physiological characteristics that it would be a long
Statistics is a pretty interesting tool for making this type of arguments.
Example:
Over the past 75 years the world chess crown belonged to a russian (and by
"russian" I mean the broad definition of the term) 70 times out of 75.
The chance of this happening by "accident" is even lower than
the
--- alan tobin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course the US's best marathoners are running
10ks right now. Tick, tock, tick, tock
Of course, the same could also be said for the Kenyans and Ethiopians. My
guess is, if the top Americans moved up, and so did the top east Africans,
the Americans
on 12/4/01 6:15 PM, Jon Entine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(which they are not very competitive at
compared to athletes from West Africa -- they don't have the body type for
it)
I know I shouldn't step into this minefield, but I do find some of this,
just as I found some of John Entine's
Book sales must be flagging. Time to drum up a little more cheap publicity
by making sweeping statements that someone is sure to take issue with.
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Tests on sedentary adult males comparing different populations. Testing at
birth wouldn't tell you much since your growth is to a large degree
genetically programmed. It would have to be after the last growth spurt.
Scientists testing muscular fiber type, such as Claude Bouchard whose work
is
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