How does race play into the Olympics

[LongestHorn]

East Africans and West Africans are the same race, but wildly different body types. East being ideal for long distance running and West for sprinting.

Jamaicans just smoke weed.

 

[fratboy_legend]

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[OrangeBlooded]

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[Alum03]

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[Hayden_Horn]

certain genetic populations of the same species are only divided into "races" on the human level, it seems.

it's really very simple. it's easy to see how possibly west africans evolved certain different traits than the east africans. it's easy to see how american indians in the aleutian islands are different than american indians in the yucatan. it's easy to see how manchurian chinese and han chinese are different. it's easy to see how japanese and chinese populations are different. it's very easy to tell a southeast asian (lao, thai, cambodia) from a western china/tibetan person.

race is a myth. fact of the matter is that western african populations, including many of those who are descended from slaves imported into america from western africa, for some genetic reason, have certain traits that allow them to excel athletically in certain sport - especially those sports that americans love, which involve a good mixture of power and speed.

it probably has more to do with the region from which their genetics hail, and the genetic history in that area than some stupid notion of "race." it probably has more to do with the skills needed to survive in that climate and to procure food in that climate, and the traits considered desireable in that culture that hails from that area.

 

[OrangeBlooded]

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[fratboy_legend]

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[OrangeBlooded]

i didn't realize you were saying two different things. How is opportunity the only variable for exposing talent?