From a sports science perspective the claim that elite sports performers are born not made
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Most 100m sprinters that we see on the TV or in the news papers or at the Olympic Games are black. Is this down to the sheer hard training that, these athletes have done over the last number of years, or is it down to something else? Genetics! People say that genetics is the sole reason why most of the 100m sprinters are black, or why most of the greatest sprinters that win are black. Indeed, you've probably got more chance of winning the lottery, than a white man has of wining a gold medal in the 100m sprint. "Over the past decade, the 10 second mark in the 100m has been broken 200 times - but not once by a white athlete. Nor is it just at the 100m that whites are so noticeably absent. Every men's world record at every commonly-run track distance from 100m to the marathon now belongs to a runner of African descent." www.kenanmalik...