@Kj16V So now you will mock how well I write worse you understood the context. You did not like what I had to say so you mock my writing skill; what a douchebag. It does not change the fact that when you're this inconsistent at big meets and blowing people away at the small ones its show good sign of doping. If you do not like my writing skill fund the education system or change the language to Japanese where the rule structure is simplistic. If you do not like my writing skill do not respond you're not important to please.
@Flip-Da-Script Actually, I was testing if you were a bot because your comment was so irrelevant and nonsensical. So, congratulations, you're not a bot; just a standard idiot 😂
@DeathMagician13 well he's not fricken White then if he's mixed race i he?! the video is about White sprinters did you not notice that?! that's why it matters!
Bolt is a drugs cheat, along with the entire Jamaican team from that era. He was allowed to get away with it because of his special ring (freemasonry) and the industry does not make money without superstars.
@AdamosCarcantos All world champions use performance enhancements, there is no schizo conspiracy. Everyone at the top level does, this is not a secret or conspiracy, its just a fact of reality. You cant win against other champion level people that use performance enhancements if you don't also.
Its not a black vs white thing. There's not many black Brazilian Sprinters. or black Kenyan sprinters. Or black ZImbabwean sprinters. Cos it seems the genetic advantage is from a somewhat small pocket somewhere in West Africa. So you get Ghainain and Nigerian sprinters as well as those from North America, the Caribbean and UK, as West Africa was the place where enslaved people were taken to those places, while Brazil primarily transported slaves from further south in the Angola/Congo area. The fast twitch prevalence is found in that smallish part of West Africa. But not the rest of Africa. So its not black vs white, its small part of West Africa vs everyone else.
It's definitely a black thing which is why black people dominate those sports - yes they're specifically West African but you don't find many others competing with them. East Africans dominate the long-distance running. So it's still a black thing.
On top of everything, Lemaitre is also such a genuine good guy. He lives a quiet life now in the south of France as a fitness coach and was a longtime spokesperson for anti-bullying campaigns having been bullied himself as a kid because of his lisp.
@Tbuy1 It's nice to hear that some French people promote niceness.. I'm French and a little tired of hearing we just complain and are rude and smelly hahaha Cheers Lemaitre!
The legendary Polish sprinter Marian Woronin recorded 9.992 in 1984. Sadly, he couldn't paricipate in the Olympics 2 months later, cause the Eastern Block boycotted it, but his results at that time meant he'd be fighting for gold. In 1987 he set the World Record in 60m dash with 6.51s. People have to stop ignoring him.
@swampwiz That would be the 1950's before fully electronic timing. The comment is about a Polish sprinter in the 80's where hundreths had been official since the 1960's. In 1984 the 100m world record was 9.93 not 9.9. They did round up to the nearest hundredth so they might record it as 10.0 anyway but not because it had to be tenths. It would have to be 9.990 for it to count as a 9.99.
In 1987 Ben Johnson was the 60m world record holder and had been since at least 1986 and his record was 6.45 if I recall. Even though they took that off the books, his 6.50 from 1986 still counts so 6.51 in 1988 wouldn't get Marian a world record. Edit that part of your comment. Houston McTear had already run 6.54 in the 1970's so 6.5 wasn't crazy 10 years later. Respectable of course but not crazy. I'll look Marian up though.
10:50 I thought it should be mentioned, people of European descent only account for about 12%-15% of the global population, and only half of those actually live in europe. In comparison, african descent by percent of the world population is around 16-18%, whilst people of asian descent account for approximately 60%-65%, respectively. Just thought I would mention that to give a clearer picture.
It's actually going to be a lot more dramatic than that if those numbers count Egyptians, Ethiopians, etc. as Africans! Whereas we're actually just talking about the West Africans and their domination. I don't think the stats in the video differentiate West Africans but I doubt you'd lose more than one or two times, if that, if it did.
@salvadorromero9712 I think within each 'race' (broad continental population) there are subgroups that are specialized or adapted for their own tasks. As you mentioned, even within the category of African descent, some countries excel far more at distance running or middle-distance (North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and East Africa: Ethiopians, Kalenjin tribe in Kenya, Uganda), while West Africans are more likely to excel at sprints. I think humans have a lot of diversity in ability and specialization even within their respective 'races'. Diet (farming lifestyle vs pastoralists, and within farming, the wheat vs rice distinction for societies), geography and climate, selection pressures, and other factors play a huge role and can create vastly different outcomes even within groups living relatively close to one another, and I think the vast diversity of tribes in Africa is an excellent example. In every people group, there are outliers. Those who are in the top echelons of sprinting and track events in general are essentially all outliers. Omanyala comes from Kenya, a country more known for success in long-distance events. What distinguishes Omanyala is that he comes from the Bantu Abaluyha tribe, not the Kalenjin tribe.
@salvadorromero9712 Ethiopians are generally considered Black. They’re East African. West African dominates in sprinting events while East Africa dominates in endurance events!
@MatthewSprintYh but you missed Southern Africans. Two South Africans and one gentlemen from Botswana were in the Tokyo 2025 100m final. And Walaza is also South African. Simbine, Leototla, Tebogo- in the finals.
I’m surprised by the proportion of Asian athletes compared with other groups since it’s being suggested that they account for more than 50% of the world population. Does this mean they participate less in track and field overall? In contrast, runners of African descent are disproportionately successful in marathons, for example, despite making up a relatively small share of participants. Since many many of the top finishers and record contenders are from that small group. I think it’s safe to say that when it comes to elite level of performance, that’s when generics truly shine.
As an African-American man who is also a former Sprinter, good video. I remember watching the Frenchman, Lemartie and thinking wow he's an amazing sprinter. He had amazing form and was able to hold it under stress. That's where a lot of sprinters break down is that they cannot maintain proper form under stress, and they wind up powering up too early, and deplete their battery too soon. Dovovan Bailey was like all power, soft form. Proper form means relax, less taxing power. This is important as most non sprinters don't understand that you actually run several races across a few days so you need to have that battery at good capacity.
Lemaitre had some amazing top end speed, but was notoriously mediocre getting out of the blocks. With better starts he may have been a medal contender at the top international events.
@TheoDeRolphfast twitch and limb length proportions always seemed to be the consensus but this video basically muddied the waters and provided no clear reason. To me, it isn't that whites are particularly slow. It's just everyone, on average, is slower than people of west African descent. They just seem to possess the right combination more often than the rest of the planet.
@malligrub Imagine how much money he could make as a coach due to the success he’s had that no other athlete of his background can replicate! If he studied business, his career could serve as a stepping stone towards his next coaching chapter! Maybe he could reproduce another White athlete like him, unless he’s considered what we call an outlier.
35 years old is retirement age for a sprinter. They usually peak by around age 25. How much they hold onto their performance after age 30 depend on how well they look after themselves.
@malligrubI would agree with you, but then there was Justin Gatlin. Also Trayvon bromell, who is 30 is injury prone. Running better than ever. Women’s side there’s Shelly and Ta Lou, both over 35.
For me, Lemaitre is a legend! I am a Frenchmen, born in 2005. I have been doing track since 2011, actively watching sport events with my Grandfather since 2012. I have those images of Lemaitre at Rio stuck in my head. He is part of those blurry memories of exitement, I have in my head.
J'suis Africain et j'ai aussi suivi les meilleures annees de Lemaitre. Je devais avoir 12-13 ans quand il a remporter le bronze a Rio. Je n'avais aucune idee de l'exploit que c'etait. Ca reste tout de meme un de mes plus beaux souvenirs de ce sport.
interested in why you think the French football teams are so dominated by Black players? do they let white kids play in the school teams, i.e. is there a slanted selection process? (like the comedian said there was in the USA)
@colinharwood-r9q There isn't really a school team system like in the US. They play in academies from a very young age and the best kids make their way up to the first team. The team is predominantly of African decent because they are the best French players, it's as simple as that. You can see a similar pattern in England, Germany, Italy,...
@colinharwood-r9qwhat a silly comment why would white coaches select black players over white players because they are racists towards whites? (their own btw). Kids in the french suburbs (poorer areas)!are more likely to seek out of football as a means of “getting out” (same as the north africans) than white most white french folks who mostly have more economic freedom to do other things
I think there’s a study that says it’s not just a black thing, since African is huge and there’s tons of diversity there. It was specifically west African were fast ppl came from. Which is surprising that Kenya and Botswana have some studs.
@sopronunciareglignocchi7255 you see things weird. It's not that west Africans dominate sprinting -- it's that sprinting is dominated by west Africans. People see the few at the top, but most people can't run a sub 10 second 100m. We see the same when it comes to wealth or intelligence. Some people point out how most of the wealthiest are white, but most white people aren't wealthy or above average intelligence
Well if you want to take it further, the idea of color 'white | 'Black' being a genetic dividing line is baseless. Medical journals and historians have stopped using the terminology of race altogether in peer reviewed publications.
@gomasonpatriot1 What is that even supposed to mean? Of course it´s not binary, for example you can be mixed, but there are people who are clearly white and people who are clearly black. The people who have stopped using race terminology did so because of political correctness, not biology.
@raflep2629 if you were so keen on biology you would know that it is an error to assume someone's ancestry and genetics based on phenotype, that's like biology 101
This guy forgot Ramil Guliyev, who ran 9.97 in 2017, the same year he won gold at the World Championships in the 200 meters, pretty fast as far as I'm concerned
True story about "White Men Can't Jump." Harrelson was trying to dunk and got Snipes to put money on it and kept failing. Snipes steps away, a lady asks Woody if he's stretched, he hasn't and does, tries again, and dunks! Snipes comes back and is stunned when Harrelson takes his money! So, White Men Can Jump! We just have to stretch first lol!
Wait this happened? Woody Harrelson _actually_ hustled Wesley Snipes on the set of _White Men Can't Jump_ ? This is like finding out Wes started casually murdering people between takes on the set of _Demolition Man_
I beleive Harrelson has since told the story that the lady who asked if he had stretched LOWERED THE BASKET when Snipes was away. Poke around and see if you can find tape of that interview...
@MFunkibut The basket was lowered, yes, to 9.5', but it was already lowered for the first part of them betting and he couldn't dunk it at that height until after stretching.
Well if you go back further in time the same biology still applies, Africans have longer limbs and built for running, it’s deeper than just sprinting ability, Africans are from a hot climate so in order to properly ventilate the body and not overheat we have long limbs, slim frame and not very hairy, and of course dark skin. Other races are also more built for their climate and region. In other words Africans/blacks have always been the fastest. It’s in the limbs and fast twitch muscles
@S@SouthforthewinterInterestingly (but understandably) Indigenous Australians seem to share a lot similarities with Africans (as described by you). They are just too small in numbers to compare globally to people of African descent. But they are highly over represented in Australian sports.
yeah, and if you expect people who didn't understand nutrition and specified training were doing better, as we see those are very important factors, then you are insane. More than 100 years ago we were still the same humans. We came from those guys. Your point is very... goofball
@jf8138 About 5 years ago in Australia, some scientists analyzed a set of a random Aborigine's fossilized feet prints and found he had been casually sprinting faster than 40 miles per hour, thousands of years ago.
To be fair Johnathon Edwards is a freak. If he was around now with all the new shoes and sports science diets etc he would triple jump so far it would look like AI.
Lemaître is such a joy to watch, never seen sprinting power for someone form white descent. I don’t know much about all sports but as a French Lemaître is my favorite athlete of all time. Never heard someone badmouth him, you couldn’t hate the guy
3:40 - The White Italian at the Japanese Olympic games beat the Black British runner (who was later to also be doping) in the relay, accelerating and overtaking him towards the end of the sprint.
There is actually a study that supports your theory. Centre of mass is critical. To put it oversimplified: Long legs (relative to torso) = fast sprinter (slow swimmer) Short legs (relative to torso) = slow sprinter (if tall enough, fast swimmer)
@a@amenajackson8133ichael Phelps and Bolt are literally the perfect examples. They are a similar height, but look at their legs. Phelps has extraordinary short legs, Bolt has very long legs.
Yes, but short legs relative to the torso is also an advantage in weightlifting, wrestling and Judo. Another event would be cross country skiing. Interestingly, bobsledding favours sprinters as well... Why don't Africans dominate that?
To people who can’t look at Kalen Walker’s handsome face and tell that he is definitely mixed race: America is weird. There was a lot of incentive (especially in previous generations) for African Americans who lacked melanin due to the crap shoot that is human genetics to “pass for white” in order to benefit from White Privilege in racist America. It was and is taboo, but I have relatives who have done it, moved away and never told folks they were actually African American. Before Uber, I was doing it for years to hail cabs in downtown Chicago - but thats the only situation in which I ever knowingly took advantage of my pale skin. And I have close relatives with less melanin than I who are proudly African American. A lot of Americans think they are of pure European descent until they take a 23 and Me or Ancestry DNA test. Thats why White Supremacists stopped taking genealogy DNA tests - they keep finding out about those hidden African American ancestors. So, Kalen Walker and his parents may not even know, but that dense curly hair, full lips and other facial features = African ancestry. He’s clearly of mixed heritage, similar to my family but we identify culturally and socially as African American. (The default setting for African American = mixed race…because America.)
I think a lot of the fast Europeans, Spanish, and even some white people would just rather play another sport like soccer and don’t develop their speed as much by sprint training
The fastest player ever and currently in the English Premier League is a white Dutch guy. There is some truth to the fact the fastest white Europeans go into other sports. Either that, or there are the socio-economic factors. I'd say that all things being equal, there should at least be more white European or even Asian sprinters competing at the top level.
That sounds like more of an argument for East Africans and long distance prowess. Sprinters are heavier built, hardly small circumference arms and legs in this vid
High altitudes,over 2000m l, as it is Mexico city, gives huge advantage for sprints and jumps.In Mexico city was the 9,95 world record for 100m and remained for many years.In Mexico city made the 8,90m long jump , Beamon
I'm a white guy that was always the fastest runner in grade school but for some reason, I can't pinpoint, never developed my ability. When I got to high school I just didn't have the confidence to join the track team even though in gym I blew away the other guys in sprints. I've always regretted that but if I had gotten the right nudging and encouragement things might have been different.
I was always the fastest in school and could beat all track people but i worked all through school so dont know my times in events. Longest and highest jumper too.
@TreFret-co6wi Bob Ross had a perm and he doesn't look Mediterranean. He definetly has african ancestry. During Jim Crow African Americans with white fathers who looked closer to their white side often ran away from their black families and moved states so they could live white. Oprah, back in the day had an episode about a white woman who learned she had significant African ancestry because her mother was white passing, and she died never telling them.
@TreFret-co6wi Nah; he’s definitely partly mixed, I looked at him and immediately thought he was partially mixed, and I say this as a mixed person. It’s not just the hair, it’s the whole face, typical light skin face. It’s more obvious when you see his mom as well, she’s the one who’s mixed, not 50/50, probably 15/85 or 25/75 at most.
11:40 just gonna say that lots of developed countries drop their "distance" runners in East Africa to train alongside and live with their own runners this in turn has begun to show results for western and or Oceanian distance runners.
This. Tiny differences in genetics between “races”/ethnic groups make for huge differences at the pointy end (the elite level). Elite level sprinting and short to medium distance swimming best exemplify this phenomenon.
@LomuHabana Most African children have absolutely no interest in swimming at a club level. Since their parents are also uninterested, there are logically no world-class black swimmers.
@s@salecousin5470 Yeah but even if they had they would unlikely to be elite swimmers as their skeletal structure puts them at a biomechanical disadvantage when it comes to swimming.
@LomuHabana There are currently at least 10,000 kids in Africa who, under the right circumstances and with at least 10 years of high-level training, could easily be the fastest swimmers in history. However, the interest is lacking, and therefore there are no swimmers.
@sal@salecousin5470 No, if there was interest they would still be highly underrepresented in elite swimming because of their skeletal traits. Because of genetics, it is highly highly unlikely you’ll find someone in Africa that is built like Phelps, However, you are likely to find someone that is similarly built as Bolt. That’s the point.
Pole vault and wrestling are relatively niche, so it's easy to argue they could be drawing from a very skewed pool, where everyone runs as a kid, so it's a bit more evenly spread. But yeah you're right though, they seem to favour quite different body types.
Edwards triple jump record of 18.29 would probably never be broken, he did once jumped 18.43 but the wind was over +2m/s , he had long legs and was fast
i think it will be broken eventually. The thing is like in football you had a player like Maradona, a once in a lifetime footballer in terms of his type of abilities. Then fast forward 27 years and you have Messi. You just need the right person to enter the sport. Triple jump is a much smaller sport, so extreme talent is less often occuring, but that could very well mean that Edwards was probably not on the very upper end of extreme talent like Maradona and Messi was, But that is just speculation based on probability. Track upgrades, science integrated into nutrition and execrice, and upgrades in shoes etc since Edwards era also come into play to shift the margins a bit too. It's just a question of time really, but it might take a very long time.
@linkingwithnaz1295 Can't blame him for trying to speed up. He was certainly giving it all he had... as he should be. Although, him falling is still funny.
Surprisingly most people don't see a problem talking about different ethnicities physical differences but if you start talking about iq differences suddenly you're racist
@qc6265 IQ tests are quite subjective and many are culturally biased. Children who do well on them are often prepped by parents early on. This can improve their scores.
@vernonfrance2974yeah sure, guess the french who invented was culturally and linguistic Asian then, since their average scores are higher than the rest of the world
@qc6265in Korean high school you have to attend school from 8 am to 7 pm and can go up to 11pm if you attend an external course, what country other than Korea do that?
@qc6265 Because simple genetic diversity would tell you that the smartest people in the world would be in Africa. However, IQ test are generally not given to the various African tribes that exist based on culturally fair assessment. Additionally, how Europeans came up with the low IQ for Africans was based on small sampling and under unfair conditioning. You should research the methodology of Richard Lynn. He is the reason why so many people view Africans as having a low IQ. When in fact, the Igbo have higher IQ's than White Brits.
Okay smarty pants, each recording machine has a degree of error. + or - do you have the data on that? Also tail winds vs head wind, do you have data on that?
LeMaître - L'Éclair Blanc (White Lightning). I was pulling for him so much in the 200m at Rio 2016, and he proved his physical & mental skills by leaning forward at just the right time to beat out the #4 & #5 runners (by 0.01s), to win the Bronze. It was a glorious sports night for me.
Splits are cool but malarky. 9.94 was the real deal. Hoping he's a 9.8 mid guy this coming season and does it under pressure. Long term medalist on the global stage. He's got the talent to do it not doubt. But he is injury prone.
Most people in the Caribbean are a mix of African, Irish and Indian and percentage wise the average is in that order too so most in Caribbean have mix of African, European and Asian lineages.
@olihallam9667 but that’s irrelevant.. because if it were Asian and European lineages would be performing well in this category as stand alone groups but they are not.. so what does this tell us?
@Sidiqasoul Is it irrelevant or an inconvenience? Id say the latter. The OP said there lineages are essentially African but there actually on the whole mixed. That is most certainly relevant to the conversation.
@Sidiqasoul So why done pure africans beat mixed race people from the Americas? Why is it that Nigeria with 200m people (more than the entire total of blacks in the Americas) has only a couple of medals? And the same for Ghana which has more people than there are blacks in the USA - and they have pure black blood - they should be winning everything using your theory.
leg length is important for every sport and helps and hurts for each type of sport, because of this it will be difficult for European decent person to win the 100m but they and Asians dominate Olympic lifting the (clean and jerk) because of the same reason that hurts them in the running sports.
@vaughanmacegan4012 If you have relatively small hands and feet you will never be an Olympic swimmer, not matter the athlete you are, just not enough surface for propulsion at that level.
@DenUitvreter Your average Olympic swimmer for males being a contender for medals is usually over 6ft some well over. Any shorter is pretty much what you said. Ian Thorpe was known for having large feet, Keiran Perkins was known to have a large heart, and Micheal Phelps was known to have a genetic condition to produce 1/2 as less lactic acid --so he could go faster for longer and recover quickly.
The fastest African on two feet is the Ostrich. Also the fastest in the world on two feet. An 8 feet tall animal with long legs and adapted to run fast for survival. 😮
“Basically these singular genes don’t mean squat diddly” was said around 13:10 in. I really enjoyed the presentation, but based upon the data set and what is known about ACTN3 making actinic-3 protein, that sweeping remark you made has a near zero basis of being true.
Not saying genetics isn't a factor, but I must say that growing up as a mixed race, half Nigerian kid, I definitely felt like for as long as I remember there being the expectation that I'd be good at some sport, and I'm sure the other black kids felt it too. Therefore even though I was a skinny, artistic kid I think I always tried damn hard when it came to sports. Add the fact that in a lot of places we're not really expected to be good at much else.
Trying is 90% of succeeding in sports; drove me crazy to see the difference between the non-athletic guys and girls when I substituted as a PE teacher... The boys would give 100% and still make it a contest, while most of the girls didn't even try, because they assumed they had no chance against the girls who actually played soccer or whatever.
People don't realize how small genetic differences between populations work out at that 0.001% highest level. There and only there they count. With kids it's more other things like culture and background, and physical maturity, lots of black kids are relatively good at sport because on average they mature earlier. But to be honest, lots of white kids have some stiffness, a rigidity in their body that is just not very helpful in sports and I have hardly seen that in black or otherwise darker skinned kids.
Very Nice video - and it gives me so much more respect for the German "Lemaitre". Armin Hary's story and his times are so surreal in comparison to our modern times. He isn't so much known in Germany today, but I would like to know if you have ever heard of him?
@appa609 WSM is full of white dudes, as well as if you look at olympic weightlifting it's a lot of white countries, as well as middle eastern and Asian countries. Mark Henry is probably the one outlier I can think of, but a lotta strength competitions are full of dudes from Europe. Depends on the strength and size, WSM is just like 6'5 300 pound dudes overall.
@dan43544911 They gave the Nobel Peace prize to Obama for merely getting elected. Who gives a shit at this point. Compromised institution just like everything else.
Stop whining your dog whistles plus nobel prize has always been dodgy af so six weird swedish old guys decide and gatekeep this benchmark of scientific or other kind of excellence
I wonder if it’s selection bias, so many black male sprinters pushed younger black men to try sprinting. Whereas white men have a lot of footballing role models and opt for that. This would explain why the difference doesn’t hold for women, their sports role models are very different and thus their choices of sport are different
It's literally this SO much more than genetics lmao. People act like quick twitch muscle fibres are everything compared to cultural differences that lead white athletes to different sports. It's the reverse and you hit the nail on the head.
I would agree with that statement. Being a mixed race male coaches in school just assumen I'd be a good sprinter, even thoughthey saw that I was actually better at middle distance. The funny thing is that my father from Trinidad grew up sailing and taught my brother and I to sail. People were always shocked to learn that we participated in dinghy racing! So yes, there is a lot of bias out there!
@jacobdoyle420 with something like sprinting, its pure performance without much in external factors (yes there's elements of form but thats teachable). And with it, you hae tiny margins that appear larger when you see it on track but these are still fractions of one percent difference. Thats why having the higher prevalence of fast twitch makes the difference. Its small but tiny differences matter.
@dairallan Yeah, in a sport like soccer or football there are a lot more variables in what makes a player good, but in the 100m sprint you literally just sprint in a straight line for 10 seconds. In soccer there are constantly young players breaking onto the scene with blistering pace, and they manage to get some eye-catching goals and assists in their first season or two, but 90% of them end up never improving any other aspect of their game, and as opponents get used to them their effectiveness dwindles and they end up playing their whole career in a lesser team than their speed suggested they could reach. A common comment about such a player is "he's just a speed merchant".
No, it is more complex. A huge factor is the centre of mass. “Blacks” have a higher centre of mass which is beneficial in the “forward falling” type of movement you have when running.
@LomuHabana Not really no. The truth is it's because of Malaria. Malaria doesn't affect people with the ACTN3 genotype RR. That genotype gives you crazy level of muscles. Back in the days Malaria was rampant in West Africa and most people with the RX and XX genotype died. Only the RR type survived and its perfect to grow muscles. It's pretty rare in most countries but in West Africa it's above 90% present. That is why. In East Africa they didn't get Malaria and so their ACTN3 genotype and physique is very different. So West African have superior muscles (fast twitch) and do better in explosive sports. But Europeans and Asians have more strength and do better in sports such as powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting or strong man contests (because they have a little of Neanderthal DNA and Africans don't).
@awesomereviews1561 No, the main and deciding factor why “whites” cannot compete with West Africans in sprinting is the skeletal structure. The taller COG and longer legs give Africans a massive advantage in sprinting. explosive strength sports also require a high amount fast twitch muscles, although optimized differently. The muscle requirements for short distance swimming are also quite similar to sprinting with a high portion of fast twitch and the “RR” speed gene.
Thanks for using my stand up clip in here. I’m honored! Great video 🫡
Doping is real in the sport some events test you for drugs that explains the inconsistency you cant get away with it at every match.
@Flip-Da-Script Repeat your comment in the form of a haiku to make it more understandable.
@Kj16V So now you will mock how well I write worse you understood the context. You did not like what I had to say so you mock my writing skill; what a douchebag. It does not change the fact that when you're this inconsistent at big meets and blowing people away at the small ones its show good sign of doping. If you do not like my writing skill fund the education system or change the language to Japanese where the rule structure is simplistic. If you do not like my writing skill do not respond you're not important to please.
@Flip-Da-Script Actually, I was testing if you were a bot because your comment was so irrelevant and nonsensical. So, congratulations, you're not a bot; just a standard idiot 😂
@Flip-Da-Script chill tf out lol
The first guy is clearly mixed lol
He's like the whitest guy I've ever seen
No@thanerial
And what does that matter?
@DeathMagician13 well he's not fricken White then if he's mixed race i he?! the video is about White sprinters did you not notice that?! that's why it matters!
@Tokinjester Yes he is, no one is truly “white” my guy. You’re just delusional. Come on, name one pure non mixed race athlete. Bet you can’t.
bruh being a sprinter in the bolt era was like a bdsm display
what
Bolt is a drugs cheat, along with the entire Jamaican team from that era. He was allowed to get away with it because of his special ring (freemasonry) and the industry does not make money without superstars.
@AdamosCarcantos All world champions use performance enhancements, there is no schizo conspiracy. Everyone at the top level does, this is not a secret or conspiracy, its just a fact of reality. You cant win against other champion level people that use performance enhancements if you don't also.
@Jiub-Jones. If you look at who got bans for what and who actually got/gets tested. Oh look you can’t test him because he is “injured”.
@AdamosCarcantos
Apparently from age 15. Before jealousy becomes your meal do a research on Bolt.
Now let's look at the fastest swimmers
NBA? If we're doing specifics now?
Mathletes
@lesthefirsti don't think the NBA involve swimming but i may be wrong tell me
what is it to see there ?
Yes, or any sport that requires money to train. Then whites have the edge!! (alpine skiing f.e.)
Its not a black vs white thing. There's not many black Brazilian Sprinters. or black Kenyan sprinters. Or black ZImbabwean sprinters. Cos it seems the genetic advantage is from a somewhat small pocket somewhere in West Africa. So you get Ghainain and Nigerian sprinters as well as those from North America, the Caribbean and UK, as West Africa was the place where enslaved people were taken to those places, while Brazil primarily transported slaves from further south in the Angola/Congo area.
The fast twitch prevalence is found in that smallish part of West Africa. But not the rest of Africa. So its not black vs white, its small part of West Africa vs everyone else.
Comparing economies and athletic programs would be more helpful don't u think😂
It's definitely a black thing which is why black people dominate those sports - yes they're specifically West African but you don't find many others competing with them. East Africans dominate the long-distance running. So it's still a black thing.
@LeoChirwa-dl5bd maybe
Thats a good point. Nor do you see many Nilotic types in these sprinter events. Mainly west African descended populations specifically.
@LeoChirwa-dl5bd you're joking, right? This is about race/genetics.
On top of everything, Lemaitre is also such a genuine good guy. He lives a quiet life now in the south of France as a fitness coach and was a longtime spokesperson for anti-bullying campaigns having been bullied himself as a kid because of his lisp.
Completely! I met him in 2010, shortly after the European Championships, and he could not have been nicer.
@Tbuy1 It's nice to hear that some French people promote niceness.. I'm French and a little tired of hearing we just complain and are rude and smelly hahaha Cheers Lemaitre!
I was bullied because of my cowardice but then I grew.
The legendary Polish sprinter Marian Woronin recorded 9.992 in 1984. Sadly, he couldn't paricipate in the Olympics 2 months later, cause the Eastern Block boycotted it, but his results at that time meant he'd be fighting for gold. In 1987 he set the World Record in 60m dash with 6.51s. People have to stop ignoring him.
Back then, the official times were in tenths of a second, so he officially only ran a 10.0.
@swampwiz That would be the 1950's before fully electronic timing. The comment is about a Polish sprinter in the 80's where hundreths had been official since the 1960's. In 1984 the 100m world record was 9.93 not 9.9. They did round up to the nearest hundredth so they might record it as 10.0 anyway but not because it had to be tenths. It would have to be 9.990 for it to count as a 9.99.
In 1987 Ben Johnson was the 60m world record holder and had been since at least 1986 and his record was 6.45 if I recall. Even though they took that off the books, his 6.50 from 1986 still counts so 6.51 in 1988 wouldn't get Marian a world record. Edit that part of your comment. Houston McTear had already run 6.54 in the 1970's so 6.5 wasn't crazy 10 years later. Respectable of course but not crazy. I'll look Marian up though.
Steroids were a thing back then too.
@absolutethinker7764 and they aren’t now 🤔
10:50 I thought it should be mentioned, people of European descent only account for about 12%-15% of the global population, and only half of those actually live in europe. In comparison, african descent by percent of the world population is around 16-18%, whilst people of asian descent account for approximately 60%-65%, respectively. Just thought I would mention that to give a clearer picture.
It's actually going to be a lot more dramatic than that if those numbers count Egyptians, Ethiopians, etc. as Africans! Whereas we're actually just talking about the West Africans and their domination. I don't think the stats in the video differentiate West Africans but I doubt you'd lose more than one or two times, if that, if it did.
@salvadorromero9712 I think within each 'race' (broad continental population) there are subgroups that are specialized or adapted for their own tasks. As you mentioned, even within the category of African descent, some countries excel far more at distance running or middle-distance (North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and East Africa: Ethiopians, Kalenjin tribe in Kenya, Uganda), while West Africans are more likely to excel at sprints. I think humans have a lot of diversity in ability and specialization even within their respective 'races'. Diet (farming lifestyle vs pastoralists, and within farming, the wheat vs rice distinction for societies), geography and climate, selection pressures, and other factors play a huge role and can create vastly different outcomes even within groups living relatively close to one another, and I think the vast diversity of tribes in Africa is an excellent example. In every people group, there are outliers. Those who are in the top echelons of sprinting and track events in general are essentially all outliers. Omanyala comes from Kenya, a country more known for success in long-distance events. What distinguishes Omanyala is that he comes from the Bantu Abaluyha tribe, not the Kalenjin tribe.
@salvadorromero9712
Ethiopians are generally considered Black. They’re East African.
West African dominates in sprinting events while East Africa dominates in endurance events!
@MatthewSprintYh but you missed Southern Africans. Two South Africans and one gentlemen from Botswana were in the Tokyo 2025 100m final. And Walaza is also South African. Simbine, Leototla, Tebogo- in the finals.
I’m surprised by the proportion of Asian athletes compared with other groups since it’s being suggested that they account for more than 50% of the world population. Does this mean they participate less in track and field overall?
In contrast, runners of African descent are disproportionately successful in marathons, for example, despite making up a relatively small share of participants.
Since many many of the top finishers and record contenders are from that small group. I think it’s safe to say that when it comes to elite level of performance, that’s when generics truly shine.
As an African-American man who is also a former Sprinter, good video. I remember watching the Frenchman, Lemartie and thinking wow he's an amazing sprinter. He had amazing form and was able to hold it under stress. That's where a lot of sprinters break down is that they cannot maintain proper form under stress, and they wind up powering up too early, and deplete their battery too soon. Dovovan Bailey was like all power, soft form. Proper form means relax, less taxing power. This is important as most non sprinters don't understand that you actually run several races across a few days so you need to have that battery at good capacity.
Thanks for the explanation
All the numbers ones in sprint were caught juicing
Lemaitre had some amazing top end speed, but was notoriously mediocre getting out of the blocks. With better starts he may have been a medal contender at the top international events.
@PongGodthats what people were saying about bolt too
Greetings from Paris France to be à fast sprinter is about genetic ? My daugther 10 years old she is slow
Kalen Walker clearly has African/Black ancestry
Henry Louis Gates should have Kalen Walker on his "Finding Your Roots" show!
Don't quote me on it, but I think I read somewhere that he has a black grandmother. So potentially quarter-black.
Absolutely! Spotted it right away 😂
Eventually, it will be celebrated & not shunned upon like it was by the Western world!
Yeah my first thought was that man looks mixed.
i’m a quarter black and he looks just like i did before i transitions
The only thing I'll retain from this video is the interesting sprinting technique of the dude in lane 5 at 1:10.
I was impressed as well 😆
I hope this ends up as the 'most replayed' part of the video. Damn funny.
The video was too long to answer a simple question. I'm guessing it has to do with fast-twitch muscle fiber which is pretty well known. Is that right?
@TheoDeRolphfast twitch and limb length proportions always seemed to be the consensus but this video basically muddied the waters and provided no clear reason. To me, it isn't that whites are particularly slow. It's just everyone, on average, is slower than people of west African descent. They just seem to possess the right combination more often than the rest of the planet.
@TheoDeRolph he literally addresses this... his take is that limb length has more influence...
2:03 dude in the back 😬
Thank you very much for that 😂
Reminder that Lemaitre is only 35 years old
yeah with a bit more experience and focus…35 is pension age in sprinter terms😂
@malligrub
Imagine how much money he could make as a coach due to the success he’s had that no other athlete of his background can replicate! If he studied business, his career could serve as a stepping stone towards his next coaching chapter!
Maybe he could reproduce another White athlete like him, unless he’s considered what we call an outlier.
35 years old is retirement age for a sprinter. They usually peak by around age 25. How much they hold onto their performance after age 30 depend on how well they look after themselves.
@malligrubI would agree with you, but then there was Justin Gatlin. Also Trayvon bromell, who is 30 is injury prone. Running better than ever. Women’s side there’s Shelly and Ta Lou, both over 35.
How many elite sprinters go on to be coaches? Mayve a Black coach can coach white athletes to run.
For me, Lemaitre is a legend!
I am a Frenchmen, born in 2005. I have been doing track since 2011, actively watching sport events with my Grandfather since 2012. I have those images of Lemaitre at Rio stuck in my head. He is part of those blurry memories of exitement, I have in my head.
I’m glad you cherish those moments with your grandfather.
J'suis Africain et j'ai aussi suivi les meilleures annees de Lemaitre. Je devais avoir 12-13 ans quand il a remporter le bronze a Rio. Je n'avais aucune idee de l'exploit que c'etait. Ca reste tout de meme un de mes plus beaux souvenirs de ce sport.
interested in why you think the French football teams are so dominated by Black players? do they let white kids play in the school teams, i.e. is there a slanted selection process? (like the comedian said there was in the USA)
@colinharwood-r9q There isn't really a school team system like in the US. They play in academies from a very young age and the best kids make their way up to the first team.
The team is predominantly of African decent because they are the best French players, it's as simple as that.
You can see a similar pattern in England, Germany, Italy,...
@colinharwood-r9qwhat a silly comment why would white coaches select black players over white players because they are racists towards whites? (their own btw). Kids in the french suburbs (poorer areas)!are more likely to seek out of football as a means of “getting out” (same as the north africans) than white most white french folks who mostly have more economic freedom to do other things
This went from the French guy Lemaitre to a statistical break down, analysis and think piece 😂
I think there’s a study that says it’s not just a black thing, since African is huge and there’s tons of diversity there. It was specifically west African were fast ppl came from. Which is surprising that Kenya and Botswana have some studs.
It is a black thing but West Africans dominate the sprinting, and East Africans dominate the long-distance running.
@sopronunciareglignocchi7255 you see things weird. It's not that west Africans dominate sprinting -- it's that sprinting is dominated by west Africans.
People see the few at the top, but most people can't run a sub 10 second 100m.
We see the same when it comes to wealth or intelligence. Some people point out how most of the wealthiest are white, but most white people aren't wealthy or above average intelligence
Well if you want to take it further, the idea of color 'white | 'Black' being a genetic dividing line is baseless. Medical journals and historians have stopped using the terminology of race altogether in peer reviewed publications.
@gomasonpatriot1 What is that even supposed to mean? Of course it´s not binary, for example you can be mixed, but there are people who are clearly white and people who are clearly black. The people who have stopped using race terminology did so because of political correctness, not biology.
@raflep2629 if you were so keen on biology you would know that it is an error to assume someone's ancestry and genetics based on phenotype, that's like biology 101
This guy forgot Ramil Guliyev, who ran 9.97 in 2017, the same year he won gold at the World Championships in the 200 meters, pretty fast as far as I'm concerned
He would have tied for 3th place!
Ramil Guliyev was such an underrated sprinter
For a sec I read Rudy giuliani and was like wtf 😅
He was born in Azerbaijan
@nic-d-2025 Azerbaijan people are white, and at least in sports counted as European.
The Aussie dude broke 10 in Nairobi, Kenya. That's high elevation, which favours fast sprint times.
True story about "White Men Can't Jump." Harrelson was trying to dunk and got Snipes to put money on it and kept failing. Snipes steps away, a lady asks Woody if he's stretched, he hasn't and does, tries again, and dunks! Snipes comes back and is stunned when Harrelson takes his money! So, White Men Can Jump! We just have to stretch first lol!
Black men don’t have to stretch though lol
Wait this happened? Woody Harrelson _actually_ hustled Wesley Snipes on the set of _White Men Can't Jump_ ? This is like finding out Wes started casually murdering people between takes on the set of _Demolition Man_
@salvadorromero9712 search "Woody Harreslon funny White Men Can't Jump Story #shorts #funny"
I beleive Harrelson has since told the story that the lady who asked if he had stretched LOWERED THE BASKET when Snipes was away. Poke around and see if you can find tape of that interview...
@MFunkibut The basket was lowered, yes, to 9.5', but it was already lowered for the first part of them betting and he couldn't dunk it at that height until after stretching.
“Of all time” when “all time” only goes back 100 years.
Well if you go back further in time the same biology still applies, Africans have longer limbs and built for running, it’s deeper than just sprinting ability, Africans are from a hot climate so in order to properly ventilate the body and not overheat we have long limbs, slim frame and not very hairy, and of course dark skin. Other races are also more built for their climate and region.
In other words Africans/blacks have always been the fastest. It’s in the limbs and fast twitch muscles
@S@SouthforthewinterInterestingly (but understandably) Indigenous Australians seem to share a lot similarities with Africans (as described by you). They are just too small in numbers to compare globally to people of African descent. But they are highly over represented in Australian sports.
yeah, and if you expect people who didn't understand nutrition and specified training were doing better, as we see those are very important factors, then you are insane. More than 100 years ago we were still the same humans. We came from those guys. Your point is very... goofball
"Elite" sprinters from >100 years ago would get blown out of the water at your average high school state championship today.
@jf8138 About 5 years ago in Australia, some scientists analyzed a set of a random Aborigine's fossilized feet prints and found he had been casually sprinting faster than 40 miles per hour, thousands of years ago.
2:37 Devon Achane of the Miami Dolphins
To be fair Johnathon Edwards is a freak. If he was around now with all the new shoes and sports science diets etc he would triple jump so far it would look like AI.
Lemaître is such a joy to watch, never seen sprinting power for someone form white descent. I don’t know much about all sports but as a French Lemaître is my favorite athlete of all time. Never heard someone badmouth him, you couldn’t hate the guy
His last 50 comeback strength in the 200 was incredible. Got him the Olympic bronze in an incredible race.
*European descent
Unless you're gonna call Asians "of yellow descent"
And then, he took the jab... the rest is history... so sad...
3:22 it's Christophe* not Christophere
CHRIS TOUT FLEURRRR
Et Lemaitre, pas Lemaitra
Erin Brown's gonna have a field day with this 😂😂
who??
@lankymario7189
youtube.com/@theerinbrowntv
yea😂😂😂
Clowns gonna clown
I would include Wayde Van Niekirk as mixed. He did a DNA test and it came back as 50% Asian. Also a good amount of south Asian/Indian aswell!
Nah this title and thumbnail killed me
that's a bold video, you've done well going through that topic, good job! :D
3:40 - The White Italian at the Japanese Olympic games beat the Black British runner (who was later to also be doping) in the relay, accelerating and overtaking him towards the end of the sprint.
Christophe Lemaitre. Not Christophere, his obscure cousin...
There is actually a study that supports your theory. Centre of mass is critical. To put it oversimplified:
Long legs (relative to torso) = fast sprinter (slow swimmer)
Short legs (relative to torso) = slow sprinter (if tall enough, fast swimmer)
Micheal Phelps prove that wrong. Bolt and Phelps practically look alike and similar in height.
@a@amenajackson8133ichael Phelps and Bolt are literally the perfect examples. They are a similar height, but look at their legs. Phelps has extraordinary short legs, Bolt has very long legs.
There's a reason why they put blade length limits on paraolympic athletes
Yes, but short legs relative to the torso is also an advantage in weightlifting, wrestling and Judo. Another event would be cross country skiing. Interestingly, bobsledding favours sprinters as well... Why don't Africans dominate that?
@H@Haseeb2-q8d Jamaica (the sprinter country) does have a national bobsleigh team.
Kalen walker is definitely mixed
Came here to say that! 😊
I came here to say that. Kalen Walker definitely looks like he’d be at my family reunion.
Exactly.
He is not
To people who can’t look at Kalen Walker’s handsome face and tell that he is definitely mixed race: America is weird. There was a lot of incentive (especially in previous generations) for African Americans who lacked melanin due to the crap shoot that is human genetics to “pass for white” in order to benefit from White Privilege in racist America. It was and is taboo, but I have relatives who have done it, moved away and never told folks they were actually African American. Before Uber, I was doing it for years to hail cabs in downtown Chicago - but thats the only situation in which I ever knowingly took advantage of my pale skin. And I have close relatives with less melanin than I who are proudly African American. A lot of Americans think they are of pure European descent until they take a 23 and Me or Ancestry DNA test. Thats why White Supremacists stopped taking genealogy DNA tests - they keep finding out about those hidden African American ancestors.
So, Kalen Walker and his parents may not even know, but that dense curly hair, full lips and other facial features = African ancestry. He’s clearly of mixed heritage, similar to my family but we identify culturally and socially as African American. (The default setting for African American = mixed race…because America.)
I think a lot of the fast Europeans, Spanish, and even some white people would just rather play another sport like soccer and don’t develop their speed as much by sprint training
Spanish are Europeans
@gamusin0loko117 my bad. i meant hispanics
The fastest player ever and currently in the English Premier League is a white Dutch guy. There is some truth to the fact the fastest white Europeans go into other sports. Either that, or there are the socio-economic factors. I'd say that all things being equal, there should at least be more white European or even Asian sprinters competing at the top level.
@gamusin0loko117No less and no more than any other nstionality in Europe. He can't comprehend that.
Lemaitre also made an unexpected return with a bronze on the 200m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, four long years of doubt after his 2011-2012 rush.
Longer limbs, smaller circumference - easier to disipate heat.
Being able to disipate heat quickly - critical in Africa, not really in Europe, Asia.
That sounds like more of an argument for East Africans and long distance prowess. Sprinters are heavier built, hardly small circumference arms and legs in this vid
Merry Christmas to you too!
Hope Santa makes his way down your chimney brother.
@JumpmanTF -- if you mean Santa is of African American descent, is that how he visits all the good children on Christmas Eve? 10 seconds per house?
LMFAO your use of the Celeste Stage 2 music earned my sub
I'm going out on a limb ... and saying nothing.
But you did, Mr High IQ. Now prove you actually can...SAY NOTHING, that is.
1:14 The dude next to him 😂
Guliev has a legal 9.97 back in 2017, he is white and european
and also has European champs record 19.76 from 2018
Missed jump man it’s been a minute🙏🏽 (12 days nvm)
I like your video. Many pictures and statistics with a good commentary.
Shutput to Pietro Mennea, whose 19.72 in 200m in 1979 stood for 17 years ar WR until Michael Johnson and is STILL 46 years later European Record.
Awesome run, but had a 1.8 tailwind plus was done in the thin air of Mexico city.
High altitudes,over 2000m l, as it is Mexico city, gives huge advantage for sprints and jumps.In Mexico city was the 9,95 world record for 100m and remained for many years.In Mexico city made the 8,90m long jump , Beamon
I'm a white guy that was always the fastest runner in grade school but for some reason, I can't pinpoint, never developed my ability. When I got to high school I just didn't have the confidence to join the track team even though in gym I blew away the other guys in sprints. I've always regretted that but if I had gotten the right nudging and encouragement things might have been different.
I was always the fastest in school and could beat all track people but i worked all through school so dont know my times in events. Longest and highest jumper too.
9:25 I guessed 3 I wasn’t far off lol this is crazy
Pietro Menea from Italy run 19".72 in 1972.Kenteris,Olympic champion ,run 2 times sub 20".00 in 200m
In crazy elevation at Mexico City
They were both roided to the gills. Not that many others arent but Menea and Kenteris were at the level of 1970s East Europeans...
He was a great sprinter and world record holder at 200m for a while.
They were on drugs
Kenteris is a known drug cheat who did crazy things to avoid testers
matthew bowling doesn’t have closing speed ????
The way you said Lemaitre hurt my french soul
😅kalen walker is a Blake griffin type.
Looks like the product of Lamelo Ball and (instert random white bop) union
Kalen Walker is literally white with curly hair. Look at Bob Ross, look at the Romans, look at Lucas Tracy MMA on youtube. LOL Accept it.
@TreFret-co6wi Bob Ross had a perm and he doesn't look Mediterranean. He definetly has african ancestry. During Jim Crow African Americans with white fathers who looked closer to their white side often ran away from their black families and moved states so they could live white. Oprah, back in the day had an episode about a white woman who learned she had significant African ancestry because her mother was white passing, and she died never telling them.
@TreFret-co6wi Nah; he’s definitely partly mixed, I looked at him and immediately thought he was partially mixed, and I say this as a mixed person.
It’s not just the hair, it’s the whole face, typical light skin face. It’s more obvious when you see his mom as well, she’s the one who’s mixed, not 50/50, probably 15/85 or 25/75 at most.
@raeraesocraycray7702 his parents, ian and Christina walker are both entirely white. It's just a funny phenotype
11:40 just gonna say that lots of developed countries drop their "distance" runners in East Africa to train alongside and live with their own runners this in turn has begun to show results for western and or Oceanian distance runners.
a very interesting contribution, competition and ambition and environment.
That would be a cool reality show
now do the video for swimming
I think lachlan kennedy has alot of potential for Australia same as gout gout
13:20 😭😭😭
Everyone forgets Nicolas Macrozonaris. He was AMAZING!
Hell yeah
Maybe it's just that it's a fairly small percent, only that small percent makes all the difference at the super elite level.
This. Tiny differences in genetics between “races”/ethnic groups make for huge differences at the pointy end (the elite level). Elite level sprinting and short to medium distance swimming best exemplify this phenomenon.
@LomuHabana Most African children have absolutely no interest in swimming at a club level. Since their parents are also uninterested, there are logically no world-class black swimmers.
@s@salecousin5470 Yeah but even if they had they would unlikely to be elite swimmers as their skeletal structure puts them at a biomechanical disadvantage when it comes to swimming.
@LomuHabana There are currently at least 10,000 kids in Africa who, under the right circumstances and with at least 10 years of high-level training, could easily be the fastest swimmers in history. However, the interest is lacking, and therefore there are no swimmers.
@sal@salecousin5470 No, if there was interest they would still be highly underrepresented in elite swimming because of their skeletal traits. Because of genetics, it is highly highly unlikely you’ll find someone in Africa that is built like Phelps, However, you are likely to find someone that is similarly built as Bolt. That’s the point.
Hoping to add to this list soon!
Absolutely outstanding stats. How about doing other measurable top 100 lists: Chess (ratings), swimming, pole vault, weight lifting, wrestling
Pole vault and wrestling are relatively niche, so it's easy to argue they could be drawing from a very skewed pool, where everyone runs as a kid, so it's a bit more evenly spread.
But yeah you're right though, they seem to favour quite different body types.
Edwards triple jump record of 18.29 would probably never be broken, he did once jumped 18.43 but the wind was over +2m/s , he had long legs and was fast
i think it will be broken eventually. The thing is like in football you had a player like Maradona, a once in a lifetime footballer in terms of his type of abilities. Then fast forward 27 years and you have Messi. You just need the right person to enter the sport. Triple jump is a much smaller sport, so extreme talent is less often occuring, but that could very well mean that Edwards was probably not on the very upper end of extreme talent like Maradona and Messi was, But that is just speculation based on probability.
Track upgrades, science integrated into nutrition and execrice, and upgrades in shoes etc since Edwards era also come into play to shift the margins a bit too. It's just a question of time really, but it might take a very long time.
this could have been an hour long lecture i was hooked
insane graph colors lmfao
Cuz we made cars😅
Yt guys be into track and field more then anyone in hs. They know to stick to long distance tho. Till they meet a random African later in life.
Strange but very enjoyable video
I once ask that same question on an athlete group blow up in sec the Admin has to delete it 😂😅
No shit the admin deleted your racist ignorance. If i said:
''This is the world's smartest black man... But why are they so dumb''?
would it be okay?
How about that guy who fell at 2:00.
Looks like he was trying to slow down and then just bit it.
He was so far behind he tried to speed up and tripped himself up.
@linkingwithnaz1295 Can't blame him for trying to speed up. He was certainly giving it all he had... as he should be. Although, him falling is still funny.
@rumblerumble2276 that often happens when you try to speed up. I did track and this would happen occasionally
I assumed he had an injury that finally put him on the ground.
Shoutout the Ridge Racer 4 music. Man of good taste I see
I appreciate you speaking on topics that most would consider "Taboo" lol. Great video.
Surprisingly most people don't see a problem talking about different ethnicities physical differences but if you start talking about iq differences suddenly you're racist
@qc6265 IQ tests are quite subjective and many are culturally biased. Children who do well on them are often prepped by parents early on. This can improve their scores.
@vernonfrance2974yeah sure, guess the french who invented was culturally and linguistic Asian then, since their average scores are higher than the rest of the world
@qc6265in Korean high school you have to attend school from 8 am to 7 pm and can go up to 11pm if you attend an external course, what country other than Korea do that?
@qc6265 Because simple genetic diversity would tell you that the smartest people in the world would be in Africa. However, IQ test are generally not given to the various African tribes that exist based on culturally fair assessment. Additionally, how Europeans came up with the low IQ for Africans was based on small sampling and under unfair conditioning. You should research the methodology of Richard Lynn. He is the reason why so many people view Africans as having a low IQ. When in fact, the Igbo have higher IQ's than White Brits.
"so slow" when the difference between them and bolt is like 0.5 seconds.
Okay smarty pants, each recording machine has a degree of error. + or - do you have the data on that? Also tail winds vs head wind, do you have data on that?
0.5 seconds is a huge difference in sprinting
@Nuffinnbutthetide any racing*
Half a second is more than 5% slower
LeMaître - L'Éclair Blanc (White Lightning). I was pulling for him so much in the 200m at Rio 2016, and he proved his physical & mental skills by leaning forward at just the right time to beat out the #4 & #5 runners (by 0.01s), to win the Bronze. It was a glorious sports night for me.
2:03 "fuk it, i already lost... might aswell just die"
Thinking of surgically elongating my legs
Just don't try to dunk 😂
turkey is your place
to become a pro athlete?
I'm thinking of getting metal legs. It's a risky operation, but it'll be worth it.
You won't be able to do spots normally anymore is it worth?
Glad to see a kiwi going big on youtube. Well done brother ;)
Genetics is a hell of a drug 🧬
I mean some PEDs are just hormone.
@msykes19 git gud
@msykes19yup since the time of Jesse Owen's when will you learn jealousy is a helluva drug 😂
Bawhahahahaha! Lol! Hahahahahahahaha! Yeah, that’s what it is. Better check those water bottles. Coach gave them a new supplement.
Genetics aren’t drugs by definition..
First white man under 10s was Pole, Marian Woronin - he got 9,992 s in 1984 year
🤣🤣
Polish people are usually not considered white however. Even if some do.
@user85436haw who told you that?
@krzysztof124
We was taught in School that for example during WW2 and when they immigrated to America people didn’t consider them white.
@user85436haw so who they were? asian? xd
Merry Christmas season and a happy new year to you. My nephew is from Houston and he and I are Mathew Bolling fans.
2:38 Devon Achane? The running back?? Damn a lot of these football players could have been track stars but they know where the money is.
You’d be insane and borderline t@rded to go track if you have the option of nfl😂😂
Some of us can run a 4.40 forty yard dash and some of us can score a 1440 on the SAT.
Speed is about many physical characteristics, like even hip structure.
Also what’s your opinion on Puripol doing 8.86s split and his potential ceiling?
Splits are cool but malarky. 9.94 was the real deal. Hoping he's a 9.8 mid guy this coming season and does it under pressure. Long term medalist on the global stage. He's got the talent to do it not doubt. But he is injury prone.
Splits are absolutely BS. The timing protocols for it is not consistent.
It's funny because lemaitre literally means themaster.
Correct. And Bolt literally means lightning ⚡ bolt 😂
@mcentepede I am about to call my kids « fast » then. Tryna see something
@mcentepede Actually a bolt is a piece of cloth woven on a loom or created by a knitting machine.
@ssebasgoo A maître d ... is the professional manager of a restaurant's dining room
@vernonfrance2974 No, it's not. Everything is not related to food in France.
Now let’s look at the world strongest man
Basically a list of times, without explaining 'why are they so slow'
Most Caribbean athletes are essentially "African" as that's where their lineage comes from.
Most people in the Caribbean are a mix of African, Irish and Indian and percentage wise the average is in that order too so most in Caribbean have mix of African, European and Asian lineages.
@olihallam9667 but that’s irrelevant.. because if it were Asian and European lineages would be performing well in this category as stand alone groups but they are not.. so what does this tell us?
@Sidiqasoul Is it irrelevant or an inconvenience? Id say the latter. The OP said there lineages are essentially African but there actually on the whole mixed. That is most certainly relevant to the conversation.
@Sidiqasoul he is way to young to understand. dont waste your time
@Sidiqasoul So why done pure africans beat mixed race people from the Americas? Why is it that Nigeria with 200m people (more than the entire total of blacks in the Americas) has only a couple of medals? And the same for Ghana which has more people than there are blacks in the USA - and they have pure black blood - they should be winning everything using your theory.
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leg length is important for every sport and helps and hurts for each type of sport, because of this it will be difficult for European decent person to win the 100m but they and Asians dominate Olympic lifting the (clean and jerk) because of the same reason that hurts them in the running sports.
Don't forget swimming long body short legs really helps in the water as well.
@vaughanmacegan4012 If you have relatively small hands and feet you will never be an Olympic swimmer, not matter the athlete you are, just not enough surface for propulsion at that level.
@DenUitvreter Your average Olympic swimmer for males being a contender for medals is usually over 6ft some well over. Any shorter is pretty much what you said. Ian Thorpe was known for having large feet, Keiran Perkins was known to have a large heart, and Micheal Phelps was known to have a genetic condition to produce 1/2 as less lactic acid --so he could go faster for longer and recover quickly.
The fastest African on two feet is the Ostrich. Also the fastest in the world on two feet. An 8 feet tall animal with long legs and adapted to run fast for survival. 😮
“Basically these singular genes don’t mean squat diddly” was said around 13:10 in. I really enjoyed the presentation, but based upon the data set and what is known about ACTN3 making actinic-3 protein, that sweeping remark you made has a near zero basis of being true.
Cold adaptation.
Not saying genetics isn't a factor, but I must say that growing up as a mixed race, half Nigerian kid, I definitely felt like for as long as I remember there being the expectation that I'd be good at some sport, and I'm sure the other black kids felt it too. Therefore even though I was a skinny, artistic kid I think I always tried damn hard when it came to sports. Add the fact that in a lot of places we're not really expected to be good at much else.
Asian people feel the same way about education
Trying is 90% of succeeding in sports; drove me crazy to see the difference between the non-athletic guys and girls when I substituted as a PE teacher... The boys would give 100% and still make it a contest, while most of the girls didn't even try, because they assumed they had no chance against the girls who actually played soccer or whatever.
People don't realize how small genetic differences between populations work out at that 0.001% highest level. There and only there they count. With kids it's more other things like culture and background, and physical maturity, lots of black kids are relatively good at sport because on average they mature earlier.
But to be honest, lots of white kids have some stiffness, a rigidity in their body that is just not very helpful in sports and I have hardly seen that in black or otherwise darker skinned kids.
And what did you end up doing?
clock it, we are really only valued for our physical ability
Ramil Guliyev ran a 9.97 in the 100 and a 19.76 in the 200.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses. It’s refreshing when people actually admit this
Is walker not mixed race?
If he is, it's probably a small percentage. Both his parents are white from images I've seen.
@JumpmanTF Look at his face tho.. Look at his features.. His hair and lips
@DFaustJr It's rare, but there are also white guys with those kinds of typically African features. I've seen some similar ones in Europe.
@matyteo3291in America the concept of euro whiteness isn’t so clear. Nothing wrong with that but it’s hard to compare.
@TrueFilteryeah, you are probably right
this early to a jumpman vid, great way to start the day
Now ... let's talk about swimming !
Very Nice video - and it gives me so much more respect for the German "Lemaitre". Armin Hary's story and his times are so surreal in comparison to our modern times. He isn't so much known in Germany today, but I would like to know if you have ever heard of him?
Lemaitre is French
@formless7000Armin Hary is German
@formless7000 I think he meant Armin Hary is the German version of Lemaitre when he said "German Lemaitre."
Everyone knows the rules:
Black: Speed
White: Strength
Asian: Dexterity
White strength?
White = Strength? Never heard of that.
@appa609 WSM is full of white dudes, as well as if you look at olympic weightlifting it's a lot of white countries, as well as middle eastern and Asian countries. Mark Henry is probably the one outlier I can think of, but a lotta strength competitions are full of dudes from Europe. Depends on the strength and size, WSM is just like 6'5 300 pound dudes overall.
@thewolfofgod3908 Watch any strongman competition, full of slavic and nordic dudes. Weightlifting too to a lesser extent.
@swagonometry9893 Basically all strength based Track and Field disciplines are full with of whites (discuss throw, hammer throw, shot put)
I think self belief clearly plays a role as well
Now do Nobel Prize winners.
Now do Religion of Nobel Laureates. Jewish vs eg.Christian. what do you see?
@dan43544911 They gave the Nobel Peace prize to Obama for merely getting elected. Who gives a shit at this point. Compromised institution just like everything else.
You do it!
Mizrahi vs Sephardic vs Ashkenazi? What do you see?
Stop whining your dog whistles plus nobel prize has always been dodgy af so six weird swedish old guys decide and gatekeep this benchmark of scientific or other kind of excellence
I wonder if it’s selection bias, so many black male sprinters pushed younger black men to try sprinting. Whereas white men have a lot of footballing role models and opt for that. This would explain why the difference doesn’t hold for women, their sports role models are very different and thus their choices of sport are different
It's literally this SO much more than genetics lmao. People act like quick twitch muscle fibres are everything compared to cultural differences that lead white athletes to different sports. It's the reverse and you hit the nail on the head.
definitely not
I would agree with that statement. Being a mixed race male coaches in school just assumen I'd be a good sprinter, even thoughthey saw that I was actually better at middle distance. The funny thing is that my father from Trinidad grew up sailing and taught my brother and I to sail. People were always shocked to learn that we participated in dinghy racing! So yes, there is a lot of bias out there!
@jacobdoyle420 with something like sprinting, its pure performance without much in external factors (yes there's elements of form but thats teachable). And with it, you hae tiny margins that appear larger when you see it on track but these are still fractions of one percent difference. Thats why having the higher prevalence of fast twitch makes the difference. Its small but tiny differences matter.
@dairallan Yeah, in a sport like soccer or football there are a lot more variables in what makes a player good, but in the 100m sprint you literally just sprint in a straight line for 10 seconds.
In soccer there are constantly young players breaking onto the scene with blistering pace, and they manage to get some eye-catching goals and assists in their first season or two, but 90% of them end up never improving any other aspect of their game, and as opponents get used to them their effectiveness dwindles and they end up playing their whole career in a lesser team than their speed suggested they could reach. A common comment about such a player is "he's just a speed merchant".
tracks, shoes drugs on a new level.
Of the 17 white women in top 100 times, 5 are from German Democratic Republic from the 80's. I wouldn't count them.
But then you can’t count Jamaica men’s since like 4/5 of
their best athletes popped
Fast twitch vs slow twitch muscles.
No, it is more complex. A huge factor is the centre of mass. “Blacks” have a higher centre of mass which is beneficial in the “forward falling” type of movement you have when running.
@LomuHabana Not really no. The truth is it's because of Malaria. Malaria doesn't affect people with the ACTN3 genotype RR. That genotype gives you crazy level of muscles. Back in the days Malaria was rampant in West Africa and most people with the RX and XX genotype died. Only the RR type survived and its perfect to grow muscles. It's pretty rare in most countries but in West Africa it's above 90% present. That is why. In East Africa they didn't get Malaria and so their ACTN3 genotype and physique is very different. So West African have superior muscles (fast twitch) and do better in explosive sports. But Europeans and Asians have more strength and do better in sports such as powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting or strong man contests (because they have a little of Neanderthal DNA and Africans don't).
@awesomereviews1561 No, the main and deciding factor why “whites” cannot compete with West Africans in sprinting is the skeletal structure. The taller COG and longer legs give Africans a massive advantage in sprinting.
explosive strength sports also require a high amount fast twitch muscles, although optimized differently. The muscle requirements for short distance swimming are also quite similar to sprinting with a high portion of fast twitch and the “RR” speed gene.
@awesomereviews1561 Sub-Saharan Africans have more genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined
@awesomereviews1561 Do you see my reply?