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I vaguely remember listening to some radio 4 documentary try to explain why certain ethnicities do better at certain sports. they came to the conclusion that people from the Caribbean tend to have a higher proportion of 'twitch' muscle cells (their definition for the muscle cells better suited to fast explosive exertion like sprinting) and that a lot of African athletes, particularly for some reason from Ethiopia, showed a higher proportion of the other type of muscle cells (i can't remember their hilarious name for these cells but they are the ones more suited to endurance, like marathons.
it was all terribly patronising and in a radio 4 'this stuff sounds racist but honestly we're not, I even buy the Guardian' type of way. I think it cam about when somebody wanted to know why the better sprinters tended to be black and someone else said, well what about marathons, or something
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