Racial Equality?

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by VooMan@Aug 27 2003, 10:59 AM
It said that black people are slightly different in their anatomy than whites. They have more fast twitch muscle fibers and they have a shorter achilles tendon, therefore giving them more *explosive* power and torque. Supposedly this is why they are faster, and why Michael Jordan can take off at the foul line for a dunk. I don't know if it's true, but this is what I read... I certainly don't want to offend anyone or sound stereotypical...

That certainly doesn't explain how the Kenyans completely dominate the marathon though. It actually contradicts it. But those marathoners are like machines, they just don't slow down at all...

Maybe West Africans have a preponderance of slow twitch muscle fibers and East Africans have a preponderance of fast twitch muscle fibers.

"Kenyans are born with a high number of slow twitch fibers," states Bengt Saltin, director of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center, one of the top experts in this field. "They have 70 to 75 percent of their muscle fibers being slow. Very many in sports physiology would like to believe that it is training, the environment, what you eat that plays the most important role. But based on the data, it is in your genes whether or not you are talented or whether you will become talented."

From: http://www.vdare.com/misc/entine_boston_marathon.htm

Haven't independently verified and no idea if the most extreme numbers both really occur on the same continent.