I never said there aren't racial differences, you don't see many Japanese basket ball players for instance. Many of the differences in sporting achievements are cultural, as you have described. Russians had male shot putters as well as those competing as female.Absolute garbage old fella.
Brit born African descent players making it because they've got role models? No. It's because they can.
Anyway, I thought football here is stuffed with players from overseas, who grew up in poor countries, and come here to play.
And i'll wager it;s the money and lifestyle which has brought them, not role models.
Are you telling me that Ethiopian and N Kenyan marathon runners succeed because they've got more time on their hands than those from Nepal?
Or that it's never occurred to a Peruvian to run fast?
The altitude certainly seems to be an element, but it's hard to read it any other way than that there are people in that area who're given to be able to run long distances faster than the rest of us.
Soviet Union era Russian gymnasts were taken as kids and put through damaging extreme training to satisfy national honour - I believe it's well documented.
As for their shot putters and the like, i couldn't tell you why it was a sport they've done well in. (i'm really not very interested in sports)
I recall there was -and still is- plenty of allegations about russian athlete performing 'unexpectedly well' in some disciplines.
i suspect it's nothing to do with race - the racial diversity within the Russian Federation -if thats what they're called now- is notably significant.
Of course Indians proclivity toward cricket is cultural .
If you want to cling to some idea that there are no physiological differences between races, that's your privilege I suppose.
PS A fella i know had a long and successful career training folk to a very particular high level of fitness.
And despite the organisation he worked for being absolutely committed to 'inclusive' policy, he assured me that some ethnic groups adapted to the training very much better than others.
To the extent that almost none came from one group i won't identify. It was as simple as that, and his job had to be blind to it looking from both angles.
(and it was nothing to do with swimming, or being able to run fast...)
Why are there no Inuit beach volleyball players?