third wave
Newbie
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
- Messages
- 9
The men's decathlon winner Ashton Eaton -- the world record holder, and the women's heptathlon winner Jessica Ennis at the Olympics this year are both the products of black-white miscegenation. That seems sort of odd to me given the relatively small number of biracial people in the world. The winners of the decathlon and heptathlon have long been considered to be "the world's greatest athletes" Daley Thompson, Dan O'Brien and Bryan Clay are also biracial. In the case of Bryan Clay he is of mixed black and Japanese heritage, but no Asian has ever won the event. Does anyone have a theory as to why biracial people do so well in, and are over-represented as winners of these events? Could "hybrid vigor" have at least a modicum of truth to it?
Last edited: