West Africans [usually] have a higher proportion of fast twitch muscle fibers, whereas East Africans (Kenyans and such) have [usually] a higher propensity for long distance running...not sure why. However, East Africans usually look quite different to West Africans, even in facial structure and so on. Probably due to mixing with Middle Easterners etc.
Black Jamaicans are mostly of West African descent, as are the majority of slave-descended black people living in America and the Caribbean, which is why they're so good at sprinting. It's also a national sport there (Jamaica), but I think it probably became that due to success at it. I also think a lot of slaves were 'bred' like horses, creating super slaves so to speak. It sounds awful, but I certainly think it happened. Hence why a lot have been successful generations later in American Football, Basketball and so on. I think Boxing has changed in that regard, so perhaps it is more societal than I'm implying. Or, more black people are avoiding boxing and going into different sports, which is actually true come to think of it.
I think Occam's razor is most applicable here...it's blindingly obvious that West Africans DO have a higher propensity for success in explosive sports such as sprinting, and I don't understand (well, I do technically) why there's such avoidance of saying so. There's a white French guy who is a sprinter, and I picked him as a dark horse (no pun intended) to come in the top three in London 2012 in the 200m...he didn't come close.
I was saying to speakeasy the other day in an email that I think our era will be defined in hundreds of years as the PC-era, where people became more atheistic and so on, yet many of those same people also ignored science when it comes to PC-issues. In such fields as race and so on. Hell, even a recent Guardian writer got blasted for saying "nature isn't a feminist".
Whites dominate the higher echelons of soccer, as discussed by Steve Sailor
here and sure, whilst some Americans would classify a few of those players as 'Latino', Steve correctly defines them as southern European white people. It's a sport that doesn't just rely on explosive power, so all races are evenly represented across the board, but I can't say with any certainty why whites are over represented in the 'best in the world' stakes.
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Out of the top 10, eight are white and two from West Africa. Out of the top 50, the proportions look similar. Judging from their pictures, I would say 10 are black, one is mostly white but clearly part black, and the other 39 look more or less white. None of the top 50 are East Asian or South Asian, and I don’t see any that are as mestizo-looking as, say, Diego Maradona, the star of the 1986 World Cup.
In contrast, only one American-born white guy has been selected to the NBA All Star game in the last half dozen years. Most of the prestige positions in the NFL other than quarterback are dominated by blacks.
Sport is diversity in action, and hilariously the left (who proclaim to love diversity) would actually rather it was swept under the carpet.
As for the Sailor article, you get comments like this one that jump to laughable conspiracy:
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Liberals want all sports, if not all activities, to be dominated by blacks.
As for the OP, I love the show. It's a bit of fun in my opinion. Plus, who doesn't want to see a man pull a truck down the road!