I don‘t want to break down any racist discussions please don‘t get me wrong but it isn‘t deniable that the best sprinters in history are of black descent. Why is it so, that black people have this advantage over European or Asian people?

  • Bitter_Eggplant_9970BEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Ted Talk here discussing why people from different parts of the world excel at different sports.

    This paper also goes over it.

    https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/dne-volumes/5/3/454

    The anthropometric literature shows that the center of mass in blacks is 3 percent higher above the ground than in whites. This means that blacks hold a 1.5 percent speed advantage in running, and whites hold a 1.5 percent speed advantage in swimming. Among athletes of the same height Asians are even more favored than whites in swimming but they are not setting records because they are not as tall.