Mathew Boling is one white guy who is blessed with speed and was a high school phenom and won indoor ncaa titles. He is almost a nobody in pro track right now, either because he doesn’t time his peak right, or just isn’t good enough to be at the top, or a combination of both. I imagine other white guys with similar speed like him in high school don’t want to take the risk of being 6th best in a USA final. Like this young man for example, possible even more talented than Boling himself, he’s just doing football. Why risk a mediocre payout for being 4th best in the USA when you can be 17th best in the NFL and still make $$$$$ without worrying to fail drug tests ?
Gatlin Bair, a four-star wide receiver out of Idaho and a fast-emerging track and field recruit, ran 20.47 for 200 meters at the BYU High School Invitational...
And just to be clear here, there have been elite, gold medalist white sprinters, against elite completion worldwide (not in the boycott Olympics or some ancient period like the 1920s); just in the 400. Jeremy Wariner won the 2004 Olympics with Gold, 2005 WC Gold, 2007 WC Good with a time of 43.45, silver in 2008 Olympics, and Silver in 2009. His career may have fallen not so gracefully in his last few years as a pro, but I call that a very successful career which many sprinters dream of.
We’re talking about sprints. It’s a power sport. Distance geeks have a bigger window and their discipline is more dependent on cardiovascular fitness. It can’t be that hard if soccer guys can pick it up that quickly.
Somewhere in a small, grungy apartment, OP is sitting alone, cackling to himself for starting this thinly veiled race bait thread, that has somehow survived for this long without being deleted.
We’re talking about sprints. It’s a power sport. Distance geeks have a bigger window and their discipline is more dependent on cardiovascular fitness. It can’t be that hard if soccer guys can pick it up that quickly.
If their discipline is more dependent on cardiovascular fitness (which takes several years of consistent training to develop) then why would starting at a later age be a bigger advantage for them than sprinters, who can rely more on their natural talent, assuming they both pick it up in their early 20s or late teens?
You're right though, distance running isn't that hard at all. That's why we see sprinters move up and dominate the longer events easily all the time. Just like Jeremy Wariner was able to jog a 49 two times in a row to break the 800 WR. Oh, wait...
Countries in which there are large numbers of "white" women tend to be more egalitarian.
I don't intend for that be a judgment at all, just an observation of how countries perform on the human development index in relation to women.
If cultural factors didn't deny women access to sport in lesser developed societies, you would have a much larger talent pool from which to draw. Women's depth in sprints, on the whole, would improve - without performances from "white" women necessarily doing so.
Steroids make a far greater difference than genetics
Bingo. Many of the top times by white women were from the 80s East Germany and Soviet Union.
Yes, but white woman sprinters have dine far better than men.since then. It may be that white women today have more belief that they can compete, having more rolemodels, even if in the case of the Soviet Bloc athletes of the 80's they were clearly roided.
Omg, so dumb. Poor troll. You and everyone else knows it's interest. White men simply don't have the interest for sprinting. There's a reason why there were faster white men 50 yrs ago vs now. Used to be lots of white men in top ranks of 200, 400. Now mostly gone. Interest
i'm more curious about the chinese. the chinese has had 1 top level male hurdler and a questionably high number of distance female in the past, but they haven't been seen since. if i had to take a guess, their drugs worked in the past but the testing finally caught up with them so they had to move on
The Nobel prize is completely made up. It’s like if we just looked at the start line of the 100m final and said “I feel like the guy in lane 6 is the best.” And then gave it to him.