Steroids and Black Athletes

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No offense to any of those athletes but they all suck. That is why they took steroids.

Not to mention that I wrote an article about black people testing positive is ignored, and whites are watched through a much closer eye. It will soon be on the site.

Do you seriously think that the US and Jamaican athletes are the clean ones?

Lastly I doubt the sprinters use what the cyclists are using becasue they are doping, something that delays the effects of fatigue. Sprinting is an anerobic exercise.Edited by: StarWars
 

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And like the rest of the information on this thread, a link is more viable. Do you have one?
 

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The lack off big names on this list is probably because testing is not an indicator of steroid use but of the amount of money that is funded for the athletes(example Flojo and Greene who never tested positive).

I have evidence only for people who are actually good; these names mean nothing to me. The lack of sprinters on this list means it is irrelavent to the myth of black dominance being addressed in this thread.

Not to mention this is just a misleadiing list probably created for the reason of pretending black athletes are innocent victims and more athletic than whites.
 

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The point is that sprinting has come to be the basis for "most athletic" in this world we live in. When blacks cheat at sprinting, its WAY different than when whites cheat at cycling, or anyhting else. Ive been told my whole life that blacks are equal to us in EVERY way. So if thats true, and they dominate the 100 meters, then they must be better than evryone else.
 
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The point is that sprinting has come to be the basis for "most athletic" in this world we live in. When blacks cheat at sprinting, its WAY different than when whites cheat at cycling, or anyhting else. Ive been told my whole life that blacks are equal to us in EVERY way. So if thats true, and they dominate the 100 meters, then they must be better than evryone else.

The inference you're making is contradictory. You want to believe that blacks dominate sprinting, not because of inherent genetic differences, but because of drug use. However, you also believe that whites are stronger and/or have higher IQ's because of inherent genetic differences. You can't have it both ways and not be challenged on it.

The rest of what you said about white drug use is kinda silly. 34 whites plus 19 Greeks (53 whites) are KNOWN to have doped up during or within months of Beijing versus 2 blacks that are known. 53 to 2 (one being a paralympian in a wheelchair). In light of this knowledge, you've come to the conclusion that white sprinters just happen to be clean, when their fellow countrymen and women across the board are PROVEN to be the "dirtiest" of the lot.. while black sprinters across the board are dirty when only 2 blacks across the lot have tested so. And why? Because Linford Christie, Ben Johnson, and Carl Lewis tested dirty *21 YEARS AGO*, Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones 7 years ago, Dwain Chambers and Kelli White 6 years ago, and Justin Gatlin 3 year ago.

Seriously, that logic is just ridiculously faulty.
 

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GiovaniMarcon said:
One thing worth mentioning, and I think it's kind of important -- people who supposedly believe in the equality of races find nothing wrong with trumpeting the so-called "Asian IQ superiority" over Caucasians (which in itself is very minor) as a vindictive weapon to use against whites who point out the IQ differences between first and third world peoples -- as if to say, it's okay to imply that Asians are a superior race intellectually over whites, but it's never okay to say anyone is intellectually superior over blacks, and especially not okay for whites to do it.



It seems people who always apologize for black failure or lack of achievement want to have it both ways.



As it stands, I'm perfectly willing to concede that East Asians have, on average, higher IQs than white Europeans, but that difference is very slight, and, I believe, part of it has to do with the incredibly high pressure Asian families put on their children to succeed.

Nevertheless, whites on average "can hang" with the best Asian minds, where as Blacks -- cultural allowances accounted for -- have a much harder time of it.



It's seems okay for people to laugh at whites and lie about us not being able to jump, but woe betide the man who implies black people shouldn't take up room in college classrooms from vastly superior white and asian kids.





The white teens whom I work withwillingly espouse Asian
intellectual superiority and black athletic superiority, an indication of low
cultural self-esteem. They do, however, notice the constant depictions of minorities
- including both blacks and Asians - in their textbooks, and that obnoxious
month devoted exclusively to blacks. The upside though is that it doesn't
take much reframing from me to get them to view things from a different
perspective. I'll mention, for instance, the myriad of European mathematicians
that created the formulas in their text book; or I'll listen to them complain
about the Puerto Rican who got into Harvard with only a 3.5 GPA. I think
most of them know what's going on, at least subconsciously; since they don't know
why though, they'll justify it with illogical inductions: whites are athletically
inferior, Asians intellectually superior, etc.



I have a lot of respect for the Asian culture; their views on meditation, religion,
and philosophy are worth reading. And while their cultural flaw may be an
inward bias, or focus on man's inner self, the Western man's flaw, as well as
his greatest strength, may be his outward bias, or extraversion. And it
was this extraversion that lead to observations in causality, and consequently
the bulk of creation of the modern world. Lest us not forget that before
Western influence, all of Asia lacked behind European nations in terms of
science, medicine, technology, infrastructure, etc.



Countries can claim, and probably manipulate, their national IQ all they
want. All debates constituting the nature of intelligence aside, a
country's history, it's contribution to the modern world both technologically
and philosophically, and those rare geniuses to whom the sparks of their imagination
we owe the very moment we are in right now to -to the degree those
measurements indicate intelligence,then all theEuropean race -Western,
Southern, and Eastern - have more that enough to be proud of.


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Latspread and Starwars brought up some interesting
points about Jamaica's drug culture, explosiveness, and top end speed.



I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again: Back east, I ran with
a post-collegiate clubcoached by a Jamaican. He admitted that when
he was competitive he juiced, and that using PED's in conjunction with
sprinting is just part of their culture. Moreover, they were easy as pie to
get.



I wish you guys lived in Cali because I need some guys to train with.
Lastspread, you are right on about Olympic lifting and acceleration. The
program I train by, a55m and 60m specialization, utilizes these lifts,
esp. the hang clean, to increase explosiveness. If you can overcome your
own inertia, best achieved by increasing strength levels and decreasing, or at
least maintaining, bodyweight </span>- by
eating cleanly and lifting weights in the 2-6 rep range, rather than in 8-12
hypertrophy range - you can apply more force to the ground with less mass to move, basic
physics.



A popular fallacy, one that most track coaches even at the college or competitive club level (trust
me, I was injured because of one's overzealous training regimen) contend, is
that speed is achieved by stride length times stride frequency with the thought that
if I just increased my stride length or moved my legs faster my speed will
increase. But what I've learned through this program -and through a
half hour phone consult with one of the top speed coaches in the country - is
that max speed is achieved by applying more force to the ground, the cue being
"step over and drive down." A high strength to bodyweight ratio
is the most important part of the start and the 30 meters it takes to achieve
maximum speed. After 30m, the acceleration phase of the sprint is finished;
you will not become faster by trying to apply more force to the ground.
At this point, you are in the maximum velocity phase. You can only hold
onto this top speed for 1-2 seconds before you decelerate, so the most
important cue is to "float," relax, and let the ground come to
you. These two phases require two chemically different aspects of the
anaerobic energy system, and as such, they must be trained differently.</span>
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Alpha Male said:
GiovaniMarcon said:
One thing worth mentioning, and I think it's kind of important -- people who supposedly believe in the equality of races find nothing wrong with trumpeting the so-called "Asian IQ superiority" over Caucasians (which in itself is very minor) as a vindictive weapon to use against whites who point out the IQ differences between first and third world peoples -- as if to say, it's okay to imply that Asians are a superior race intellectually over whites, but it's never okay to say anyone is intellectually superior over blacks, and especially not okay for whites to do it.

It seems people who always apologize for black failure or lack of achievement want to have it both ways.

As it stands, I'm perfectly willing to concede that East Asians have, on average, higher IQs than white Europeans, but that difference is very slight, and, I believe, part of it has to do with the incredibly high pressure Asian families put on their children to succeed.
Nevertheless, whites on average "can hang" with the best Asian minds, where as Blacks -- cultural allowances accounted for -- have a much harder time of it.

It's seems okay for people to laugh at whites and lie about us not being able to jump, but woe betide the man who implies black people shouldn't take up room in college classrooms from vastly superior white and asian kids.

&lt;p ="Msonormal"&gt;The white teens whom I work with willingly espouse Asian
intellectual superiority and black athletic superiority, an indication of low
cultural self-esteem. They do, however, notice the constant depictions of minorities
- including both blacks and Asians - in their textbooks, and that obnoxious
month devoted exclusively to blacks.  The upside though is that it doesn't
take much reframing from me to get them to view things from a different
perspective.  I'll mention, for instance, the myriad of European mathematicians
that created the formulas in their text book; or I'll listen to them complain
about the Puerto Rican who got into Harvard with only a 3.5 GPA.  I think
most of them know what's going on, at least subconsciously; since they don't know
why though, they'll justify it with illogical inductions: whites are athletically
inferior, Asians intellectually superior, etc. 

I have a lot of respect for the Asian culture; their views on meditation, religion,
and philosophy are worth reading.  And while their cultural flaw may be an
inward bias, or focus on man's inner self, the Western man's flaw, as well as
his greatest strength, may be his outward bias, or extraversion.  And it
was this extraversion that lead to observations in causality, and consequently
the bulk of creation of the modern world.  Lest us not forget that before
Western influence, all of Asia lacked behind European nations in terms of
science, medicine, technology, infrastructure, etc.

Countries can claim, and probably manipulate, their national IQ all they
want.  All debates constituting the nature of intelligence aside, a
country's history, it's contribution to the modern world both technologically
and philosophically, and those rare geniuses to which the sparks of their imagination
we owe the very moment we are in right now to - to the degree those
measurements indicate intelligence, then all the European race -Western,
Southern, and Eastern - have more that enough to be proud of.

Very good analyis.

Kevin McHale, I think it is obvious Greece is just as guilty as Jamaica or the United States with steroid use. But you only named one sprinter on that tested positive, and he is from Greece. Furthermore, he is usually around a 20.5 second 200 meter, with a personal best at 20.11 in 2007 at Osaka. That is not talented enough for my argument. I am inherently going to be talking about very elite athletes steroids or not because I am bringing up the fastest men in history for this thread's polemic; steroids are used by black people to perpetuate the myth they are faster.

Here is the evidence:

We do not know if Kostas kenteris ever used steroids, but he gets more heat for it than people who have. People who have tested positive who are allowed to compete are Javier Sotomayor, Dwain Chaimbers, and Carl Lewis. Those are the caliber athletes I am talking about. Others that have greater evidence against them than Kenteris are Maurice Greene, who sent money to a drug lab. Then there are the athletes that improved too fast, like Usain Bolt. I believe Kim Collins was caught at one point too, but was allowed to compete.

Greece is the only country with white sprinters that probably promotes the use of steroids like Carribean countries and the US.

African athletes not in the US or Carribean are not close to as talented, probably because of a dearth of steroids, which can get expensive especially when covering them up. For instance, although the white population in all of Africa is arount 1% or less, the second fastest man in history is a caucasian by the name of Morne Nagel. He ran a 6.48 60 meter. Not to mention, you show me any black athlete that can run a 10.03 into a headwind at 19 years old with horrible form and I will rest my case (Shirvo!!!).

You gave me a list of white athletes competing against other white athletes, therefore steroid use is overlooked more because they are not robbing medals from "more athletic blacks." That would be a true travesty.

This site is about seeing through the incorrect mainstream arguments to put black people on a pedastal. Personally, I don't see how the sudden eruption of black athletes in the past 20 years could make anymore of a glaringly obvious case that white people are just as fast. I could go on much further if you want me to, but in my opinion I thought I made my point.
 

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I think that west africa and their descendants from american continent(with their white admixture) are slightly faster in the topspeed then whites on average.I live in europe but with a lot of blacks and in all the years soccer I think we whites from what I have seen are as fast as blacks or faster on first meters but topspeed blacks are faster.this coming from a white who never lost a sprint against a black in soccer but I saw that my advantage was my start and against a fast black the speed advantage becamed less when their was more % topspeed in it.Also a sprint from a black looks slighty different then from a white.so I think blacks have a bit topspeed advantage but whites are overall more athletic and more powerful(% of musle is powerfiber masters)
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you have also some whites with very high topspeed like Guus Hoogmoed but bad luck is he don't have the start of a good white sprinter.i just think high top speed is more common in west african blacks.

I think whites have mostly high% powerfibers for bruth strength and have a lot of variation in not only eyes and hair colours but also the SD(standard derrivation) is bigger between whites then between blacks or orientals(east asians).that means that whites are more likely to be a big % away from the average.I know this is true for height and also IQ which is i believe part genetic part not.So whites and orientals are close on average in IQ but the % whites that have 130 or higher iQ is higher then orientals.mine is 118 and my brother has 130.I also think in sprinting it is important that a lot of whites compete because the differnce in avarage speed is not so big and whites have a lot of variation SD in a lot of things also in body build.the high % powerfibers have most whites like some facial features in common.I think the chance a white wins gold in sprinting is 1000 times bigger then that a black wins bruth strength like world strongst.the differnce in speed(were you use powerfibers on first meters)between whites and blacks is much smaller then the advantage whites have over blacks in pure bruth strength.
 

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We should really create a 45 meter race for white people. We would own at that. Blacks probably have better top end speed/ speed endurance, but there should be more whites on the podium and the reason there isn't is steroids. More big races should look like this, where the white guy has a chance:

How it should be
 

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McHale,

where is the list of black athletes that have been caught? and when the hell did Pietro Mennea ever get caught taking a PED. he is at the top of the list. that right there makes me question its validity. Mennea body now a days would pass for a 1500m runner. not to mention the PEDS they had back then made you huge and muscular. when you post a list of the blacks that have been caught, then maybe I won't think you're a troll.
 

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Mennea never tested positive for illgel drugs. I think he used HGH but back when it was legal, but maybe he didn't even do that.
 

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I do not see you supporting white sprinters or athletes. Whites are bashed on just about every web site. This is one place where we support them. Kevin McHale needs to either stop being constantly critical of white athletes or find another board. You are going overboard in your attack on white sprinters and athletes in general. Many other boards would welcome you as you think just like they do.

We are not brain washed here. Whites used to win medals and set olympic/world records back in the day. We can compete again and will in the near future if some of the cheats can be caught. From Justin Gatlin to Tim Montgomerey, they are cheating left and right. Especially in Jamaica. If you don't like it, then find a new board to post on. The truth will come out eventually and guys like Asafa and Usain will be caught. It is only a matter of time.
 

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white lightning said:
I do not see you supporting white sprinters or athletes. Whites are bashed on just about every web site. This is one place where we support them. Kevin McHale needs to either stop being constantly critical of white athletes or find another board. You are going overboard in your attack on white sprinters and athletes in general. Many other boards would welcome you as you think just like they do.

We are not brain washed here. Whites used to win medals and set olympic/world records back in the day. We can compete again and will in the near future if some of the cheats can be caught. From Justin Gatlin to Tim Montgomerey, they are cheating left and right. Especially in Jamaica. If you don't like it, then find a new board to post on. The truth will come out eventually and guys like Asafa and Usain will be caught. It is only a matter of time.
Not surprised how many would still bash white athletes to this day and age. I'm amazed how the Olympic and Sporting officials would target white athletes more accordingly than blacks and Asians in their anti-doping measures. It's obvious that more blacks get away with the doping. There must be some sort of propaganda campaign to bar whites from sports altogether. Despite all this, whites still win more than 70% of the medals in every Summer Olympics. And several times more in the Winter Olympics. That's white sporting excellence for you.
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I have never seen any evidence that Mennea ever used PEDs. The only thing is rumors on message boards that he admitted to it. Mennea is an attorney that has been fighting for PED legislation in Europe for the past decade. You also see rumors on blogs that Borsov used PEDs, but no evidence. Even Kenteris was never proven to have used PEDs and was cleared by the Greek authorities. Although I personally think he probably did, Kenteris is the only white sprinter that has been suspected. Yet the list of black sprinters caught using is as long as your arm. Edited by: SteveB
 

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just because some SI writer wrote in his article that Mennea admitted it, doesn't mean that its true. writers mess up all the time and often lie to prove their own personal agenda. like the old saying "believe half of what your read and none of what you hear". Also, Mennea wouldn't be where he is right now if he admitted to taking drugs. Mennea ran in a time when steroid uses would be obvious. just like Johnson in 1988. Johnson looked like a body builder compared to the other athletes. guys like Mennea, Hary, Borzov all look like mid distance runners in today's standards. for Christ sakes Marita Koch was bigger than Mennea! and there is a white women who doesn't have to admit to taking drugs. some people, it's just really obvious. I would bet my left nut that Chambers, Williamson, Powell, Bolt and most of the Jamaican team are on some sort of Ped. and I would bet my right nut that Kuc, Pickering, Lemaitre and Blum are not. McHale, your list blows. if your black, go find a nice anti white site you can post on. if your white, I suggest you pull your head out of your ass, and then shoot it with a gun. your nothing but a troll.
 

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Bolt improving from 10.03 to 9.55 is a rediculous feat. People are so unwilling to pick their jaws up from on the floor and realize that it is aided because he is tall and that makes him fast or improve so much. Speed is about power and turnover, height makes a small difference but i think if humans sprint for 1000 years the world record holder will be around 6'0" tall. This is because speed endurance is not really effected by height, nor is the first 40 to 50 metres of a race, or the drive phase. Only two seconds relies on the stride length times frequency formula. The trend of roided athletes is in Jamaica and the US. Africans do worse than their counterparts from the Caribbean and America, but Europeans do better. Obviously, the far western hemisphere has it out for white people.
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j41181 said:
No question whites are also caught doping. But more blacks get way with it.

Exactly. And the blacks that do get away with it are world record holders and gold medal contenders. The list McHale made is of white athletes who are not that talented. They were never contenders, and therefore never a threat to the powers that manipulate people's minds into thinking blacks are better athletes. Their being caught works into the scheme.

Carl Lewis, Mo Greene, Montgomery, Gatlin, Chaimbers, Sotomayor; are all examples.

Can the same be said about Shirvo, pickering, lemaitre, Cerutti, Yepishin, Wells, or Blum? I think not. They know they cannot get away with it because they are white, and will be scrutinized worse than Kenteris if they ever stand on the 100 meter podium. And blacks like Bolt (10.03 to 9.55ish)are not even questioned. Ya right. Same with Johnson, who ran his fastest when 30 years old. To not realize this is hubris (because you are black) or because you are brainwashed.
 

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yep the jamaicans will be caught sooner or later and look at the doping shams in the usa the last couple of yearsits quite obvious black athletes dope much more than whiteand as white lightning has shown the science is there to be analysed and mennea was never quoted as having even sniffed drugs , the doping controls in the carribean are laughable and balco have opened a pandoras box for black athletes in the US
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by the way sports illustrated is a tabloid magazine with anti white and anti european undertones and cant be trusted for objective sports jounalism , its kinda sad that so many WHITE US individuals find solace in criticising there own colour or are intent on making the achievements of white athletes seem lesser then that of black , it doesnt make sense ,forget the political correctness and just look at the facts
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roll on the white sprinter project, well guess what its all ready started ,pickering.blum.lemaitre,keller,vanvyer,kuc,cerutti, and many more but as u can see nearly all europeanso hey my friends in the the new world keep the fire under the soles and in the souls of young whitesprinters
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For all those who say, "Well they were tested," or "then why don't Jamicans or US athletes test postive?" Here is your article from the Greek perspective of the 2004 Sydney Games.US Protects Atgletes like Maurice Greene From Olympic Testers

My favorite part is how the Greeks chant Kenteris at the end. They know what;s going on.

Here are some quotes from the article:

"According to Patris, the testers present their credentials to security and proceed to speak to a female athlete, who initially refuses to be tested but later agrees, on the condition that she is tested after her workout. The testers accompany the athlete to a training track. Hours go by, but finally a urine sample is obtained. Upon their return to the hotel the testers look to test others, including the US star sprinter Maurice Greene.

They do not get far. Patris stated the testers are arrested and escorted to a local police station where they are questioned for almost three hours. They are arrested for what US team officials claimed was a security alert after lying about their identities to hotel staff, and on the suspicion of being terrorists. After proving they were who they said they were, the testers are released. Now late in the day they do not return to the US team hotel."

Just wow.
 

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Kevin McHale -- not that your posts aren't impressive or interesting or potentially convincing to the random reader, but I think the rest of us are talking about elite-level sprinters -- the small cadre that competes at the very highest level, where as several of the athletes whose IAAF profiles you've displayed aren't really legitimate medal threats.

The point most of us are trying to make isn't that whites are faster than blacks on average, or even AS FAST as blacks on average. In fact, I've seen it conceded on more than one occasion the opinion that the average black sprinters are slightly (SLIGHTLY, not significantly) faster than the average white sprinters.

But we're not speaking of the average sprinters; we're talking about the ones who get involved in the championship rounds. Thus the usual argument that "it's the last hundredth of a second of genetic superiority that makes the difference" -- is irrelevant.

The fact that the average white sprinter may or may not be slower than the average black sprinter is moot. We're talking about the absolute best black sprinters and the absolute best white ones. Just as if one were to search for the person with the highest IQ in the world -- averages wouldn't couldn't for a fig.

Olympic races are searches for EXCEPTIONS rather than averages.

The absolute best white sprinters -- the exceptions -- used to go stride for stride with the best black sprinters up until the 1980s. What happened?

That is what we are trying to find out. Certainly on a genetic level nothing improved the African race in only thirty years. Similarly, nothing on a genetic level degraded the Caucasian race in only thirty years.

Logic holds then that the reasons must be external. Possibilities include, but are not limited to:

1. more blacks are being exposed to sprinting and convinced of their inherent superiority, while simultaneously whites aren't recruited as much as before and are faced with a psychological disadvantage at any rate. Potentially elite white sprinters might never begin sprinting in the first place.

2. whites used to take more drugs before, which was why they could compete, but now that they don't take drugs anymore, they can't compete.

3. blacks used to not take drugs, but now that they do, they're winning.

4. everyone, black and white, is taking drugs, but they work better on blacks.

I happen to believe that the reason for the dearth of white sprinters at the championship level relative to thirty years ago is a combination of reason 1 and reason 4. I do not claim that whites have kept their skirts clean where as it's the black boys who have mucked up the works for everyone. I think everyone has their fingers in the drug pie. I think the combination of PEDs and the fact that whites as a race have generally "written sprinting off" as a sport at which they can compete accounts for the missing white runners in an Olympic final.

It is not wrong to encourage those whites who say NO to writing off sprinting -- Pickering, Wariner, and friends -- nor is it wrong to scrutinize the puzzling, sudden, and suspicious success of certain blacks in the same sport.

You have convinced yourself of Morne Nagel's guilt based on his flash in the pan success. Okay, fine. Maybe he cheated, maybe he didn't -- you've got your reasons to suspect him.

Similarly, we have our reasons to suspect Bolt, Chambers, et al.

Certainly Kenteris' missing drug exams sound really suspect. But yeah, Greene sending a check to a drug lab sounds suspect, too. Of course, like you, it could have been something completely innocuous.

But we're dealing with probability here. Maybe he's innocent. I think he's guilty.

In the end, the reason why whites aren't represented on the starting blocks of the olympic finals anymore at the short sprint isn't because whites are slower than blacks on average. Again, the point of finding Olympic champions is to find the exceptions. Otherwise, we'd all have medals on our mantles.
 

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GiovaniMarcon said:
Logic holds then that the reasons must be external. Possibilities include, but are not limited to:

1. more blacks are being exposed to sprinting and convinced of their inherent superiority, while simultaneously whites aren't recruited as much as before and are faced with a psychological disadvantage at any rate. Potentially elite white sprinters might never begin sprinting in the first place.

2. whites used to take more drugs before, which was why they could compete, but now that they don't take drugs anymore, they can't compete.

3. blacks used to not take drugs, but now that they do, they're winning.

4. everyone, black and white, is taking drugs, but they work better on blacks.
I second the motion on this one. The truth is whites aren't slower than blacks, only by a very slight difference. Performance enhancing drugs are what determine results in sprints now. Whites took them without any restrictions then and they could compete. Blacks were also taking them, but now, they get to take them with little or no restrictions. Blacks are being classified as the thoroughbreds of sprinting, with whites nothing than spectators. Anytime a white starts measuring up to them (like Kenteris), the sprinting officials immediately put their anti-drug efforts on him. I doubt guys like Bolt will suffer such fate.
 

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Giovani Marcon makes a good point: we are not talking about the average or even pretty good sprinter. Although, I think he (Marcon) is wrong to have the opinion that one race (blacks) may be faster on average, becuse it is impossible to determine the speed of a race. This is because less than .1% of the world probably even steps onto a track. That being said, even if blacks are faster on average white people have a higher population and therefore a greater chance of an outlier (if you've studied probability)and a much larger gene pool for genetic variation. For these reasons there should always be white sprinters on the podium, and because we are good at it.
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If you look at Velery Borzov, Morne Nagel, or Epishin you see white sprinters that are fast and skinny. Steroids work just as well on whites; I've seen people on my football team that are white improve with them a lot. It's a problem but I am drifting.

It is obvious Carribean and American black sprinters are aided by drugs. Read the article I cited above; we will do anything to protect our black athletes, and so will the IAFF. Also they have way too much confidence, and white people are scorned for pursuing sprinting. Blacks have a free pass for steroids, and they can get away with testing very easily, while white people are suspected even when never testing positive.

Even if black people are faster on average, I would like to clarify that the average person is slow as molasses. Even the average football player is slow on average. Believe me, I do football and track and I can outrun guys who claim they run 4.4s and 4.5s easily. Just like the average IQ sucks. Our average IQ is less than Asians, yet still we create all the math formulas, governments, and even the world economy. This is because we have a larger genetic variation, giving us more potential to be a genious, olympic weightlifter, or olympic sprinter for that matter. Why do whites still dominate the high jump, shot put, have the record in triple jump and decathalon? Because we don't have fast twitch muscles? Ya right. Lifting shoould correlate to track directly.

Blacks and whites are equal in the 100 meter. Whites are better starters, and blacks rely on top speed. We do not see sprinters that are white both because they are discouraged and black people are on steroids (from US and Carribean). The black sprinters get away with it because they are protected, and whites are always scrutinized for roids. That is why Sotomayor, Lewis, Greene, Blot, Chaimbers, and others get away with it while whites like Kenteris cannot. It is ridiculous to think Pickering and white sprinters can take steroids and get away with it. No way.
 
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