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?

  • Stock_Bus_6825BEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s not “black people”, the African continent has more genetic variety that the rest of the world. They all happen to have black skin, but that’s about it, be weary of generalizations. Genetically “black” doesn’t make sense.

    Now regarding sprinting, it’s likely to do with a higher percenge of type 1 muscle fibers in West Africans, which is where most black people from the US and the caribbean descend ultimately from.

    https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.305.5684.637