Sorry to be the guy that brings controversial issues to this thread. But this kind of thing is exactly why the "trans women have a biological advantage in sports" argument holds no water. (Other than the fact its almost entirely untrue)
People from this region have a biological advantage in their sports, several orders of magnitude more of an advantage than trans women have. But no one is calling for these people to be banned from sports.
Someone should check what’s in the waters of Lake Victoria (tea leaves?)
Also a region with good coffee. There must be a correlation…
I wonder how much caffeine doping goes on before races. It sure as hell gives me tons of energy
As the Oregonian in the thread: Steve Prefontaine!!
Persistence predator go brr. Epidemiology implies genetics are likely involved.
The topography explains it all. https://geology.com/articles/east-africa-rift.shtml
tl;dr The people of that area in East Africa naturally live close to sea level, however there are easily accessible elevations changes that distance runners have trained on for probably centuries. It turns out that training at high altitudes and recovering at low altitudes provides a tangible and demonstrable advantage compared to just single elevation training.
That’s good. I thought the map was being racist
Maps aren't racist. Map owners are racist. Map creators are just filling demand.
(replace "maps" with "dogs" and "racist" with "at fault for dog eugenics")
The school of thought has generally changed.
Live high, train low is now the prevailing methodology.
Yeah like the other commenter said this isn’t it, nobody is commuting up and down 10,000’ on a regular basis, especially in antiquity. Just because different elevations “look close” on a map means nothing.
Far more likely is this is a concentrated population of folks with highly desirable traits for distance running.
This can't be the whole story, otherwise we'd see places like Chile, Peru, and India competing too
India? the sea and the himalayas are too far apart to compare.
The air sucks in India too
India's Deccan Plateau is about as elevated as most of Kenya's highlands and takes up basically the entire land area of India that sticks out into the ocean
Crazy that most of them come from the same place as our earliest ancestors from 200.000 years ago. Must be a magical place.
Hasn't there been an older skeleton found in Morocco now?
Would explain the three dots there.
No it wouldn't
Yea but imagine if it did
Whoa crazy
They'll run as fast as Kenyans!
400 BABIES!
ENERGY LEGS!!!!!!!
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