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Why does the caribbean produce so many quality sprinters?
Twenty-eight of the last 38 world record holders in the men's 100-meter dash have been black athletes, and researchers at two universities think they know why.
Seems their ancestry is west African and that makes the difference.
It's cultural. Success breeds success and they're all well into sprinting. It's like the classic why are there no black swimmers. Genetic? Or cultural?
Look at the cricket. They dominated for years in the West Indirs and then their heads were turned towards basketball. Now that's what kids want to do.
Very true. Which is why is is so annoying that the UK has gone steadily downhill over the last 100 years after several hundred years of world domination.
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