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[QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [QB] I just witnessed(TV) the recent World Track and Field athletic event, Osaka, Japan. I noted that sports bloggers on international sites express puzzlement as to why any country in Africa with its "vaunted poverty" can do better than supposedly healty and resource-stromg European nations. Kenya and Ethiopia with a combined population of 110 million have outdone some 6 billion people in distance races from 800 metres to the marathon. Also noteworthy is that the shorter distances from 100 to 400 metres were dominated by West Africa origined individuals living in the Americas. Question: modern athletics is obviously greatly influenced by the Greek athletic traditions: marathon, discuss, javelin, etc., the question is was the Greek tradition in athletics indigneous? Question: Apart from wrestling what athletics did the Ancient Egyptians engage in? Question: why do countries in the vicinity of East Africa such as Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia have almost zero success in modern athletics? Question: why do Nigerians, Ghanians, Senegalese and their E3a kin in the Americans show such dominance in shorter distances while East Africans(E3b)(Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, etc.) show an equal dominance in the longer distances. Note that in old days that the conventional European thesis was that "negroes" had limited lung capacity so they couldn't run long distances. It w as also claimed that 'negroes' lacked sufficient discipline and planning skills to run long distances successfully. It was also claimed that suucess in running long distances required "caucasoid" genes and phenotypical traits. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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