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    #21
    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    sasguru's getting £20K out of it (£10K after tax) so it's all worthwhile.

    Also, I think it's really important to find out which country has the fastest black person.
    Probably Jamaica.

    Christophe Lemaitre could shake things up though, and he's white.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #22
      Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

      Also, I think it's really important to find out which country has the fastest black person.

      Nearly all the sprinters who have beaten the 10-second barrier are of West African descent. Namibian (formerly South-West Africa) Frankie Fredericks became the first man of non-West African heritage to achieve the feat in 1991 and in 2003 Australia's Patrick Johnson (who has Irish and Indigenous Australian heritage) became the first sub-10-second runner without an African background.[5][6][7][8] Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre became the first white European under ten seconds in 2010 (although Poland's Marian Woronin had unofficially surpassed the barrier with a time of 9.992 seconds in 1984).[9] In 2011, Zimbabwean Ngonidzashe Makusha became the 76th man to break the barrier, yet only the fourth man not of West African descent.[10] No sprinter of predominantly Asian or East African descent has officially achieved this feat.[11][12][13]
      10-second barrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Presumably there was something worth running away from or chasing at high speed in that neck of the woods.

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        #23
        Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
        Presumably there was something worth running away from or chasing at high speed in that neck of the woods.
        Yep, but interestingly Lemaitre is, at 21, quicker than Asafa Powell, Tyson Gay and many others at 21, which suggests he has potential to run quite a bit faster than 9.92 if his career is managed well.
        And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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          #24
          Originally posted by Arturo Bassick View Post
          Lisa?
          I see Sideshow Bob giving Bart a blow job.
          No, Sideshow Bob's hair is wavy:


          Lisa's is straight:


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