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Sprints in athletics are a monopoly of the blacks. What is the reason?
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10 Jan '10 07:41 pm
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The athletic superiority of the blacks, as the unchallenged monarches of the tracks in the sprint events (100M,110M hurdles and 200M) as well as in the middle distance races of 400M, 400M hurdles and 800M has been a subject of intensive reasearch , The explosive burst of energy and their well built body , hard work and natural talentsare always regarded as their winning streak in the track events, But, researchers have come up with evidences that the Black are genetically endowed over their European and Asian counterparts, scientists say, The natural anatomical advantages are 1) The Blacks athletes have more muscle and less fat 2) have highwer levels of testosterone which gives more explosive energy 3) have more fast twitch fibres in their muscles(giving them speed) than athletes from anyother human race 4) have a narrower pelvis which makes for a more efficient stride, (but these genetic advantages come at a price, the price of a smaller brain ), No doubt, numerous factors, geneti
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Answered by thampy chacko, 12 Jan '10 02:26 pm
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