Diversity in track sucks

[McCaffrey Dude]

I did not see the Rio 4x100 men's relay live but watched the replay and was blown away at how Japan ran under 38 flat for the silver. My problem is that the dude running the final leg was of mixed race but must of had some African in him.
Sweden used to pump out a good # of white sprinters and now their top 2 sprinters are from Jamaica.
Norway used to have a great one in Geir Moen and now their top sprinter is black.
We all know how Canada for years imported their sprinters from the black Carribean Islands.
Even Italy has a couple of black sprinters that are standing out.
How many European countries or Asian are left that don't use someone of African descent?
Poland, China and maybe the Ukraine and Russia.
Even South Africa not to long ago had some top white sprinters and now they are all black.
My only hope is Australia as we know has a ton of up and coming white talent. Jack Hale is good but my hopes are resting on Trae Williams. I think he is 18 but he just looks really promising as he is going to mature fast over the next 2 years.

 

[celticdb15]

Only diversity I like is European Diversity !

 

[jacknyc]

Japan did a great job! But as you mentioned their anchor was mixed Japanese and Jamaican.
However, their team also got silver at the World Jr. Championships running with an all Japanese team.
They were barely beaten by the US.

 

[NWsoccerfan]

The Phillippines national record for 100m is 10.25 and is held by Eric Cray. He of course has a Filipino mother and a black father. He looks almost entirely black. He lives, goes to school and trains in the US and sounds like a ghetto thug when he talks. And of course he ran for Phillippines in the olympics because he wasn't good enough to make the US team. This type of stuff disgusts me. There is no reason to even have the olympics anymore because the uniqueness of individual countries is disappearing. The liberal elites are ruining the cultural and visual differences amongst the human population. A sad process that we have to watch happen at a frightening rate.

 

[McCaffrey Dude]

Its nice to know Germany and Great Britain have produced an astounding # of top white sprinters but they are still riddled and mixed in with other blacks that are just as good or better. Look what Great B. has done in the last 10 years. Craig Pickering, Greg Cackett, Thomas Sommers, Daniel Talbot ( maybe ), Andrew Robertson, Richard Kilty, Oliver Bromby to name just a few. Great B. has had like 5 or 6 guys run 10.1 or better in the last decade and all the US has is our boy John Teeters. I wonder if white American sprinters don't progress because they play other sports or it is more psychological? It is something to debate.

 

[jacknyc]

I complain about this constantly on track message boards.
What's the point of competing under different nation's flags, if anyone can become a citizen of any country.
Turkey competed in the European Championships with a team made up almost entirely of non-Turks.

 

[Don Wassall]

In the U.S., where football is the unofficial religion, White kids have seen nothing but virtually one hundred percent blacks at the "speed" positions for literally decades on end with no deviation, with the media constantly mocking the speed of the few Whites who are allowed to compete. It has to have a strong effect on Whites psychologically.

I'm not as familiar with the recruiting process when it comes to track as I am with football, but are fast White high school sprinters recruited by the big track schools to further develop their talent? Likely not. Jeremy Wariner had world class speed and yet could not secure a football scholarship. And as I recall, his track coach Clyde Hart kind of made an exception by developing Wariner at Baylor.

The common wisdom -- which is oblivious to the Caste System -- is that the black domination of sprints is the reason there are so few Whites who excel at the "skill" positions in football, but maybe it's the other way around -- every sports minded White kid grows up watching football and the lack of fast White NFL players discourages talented young Whites from trying to pursue track.

 

[McCaffrey Dude]

I always thought that if some great white athlete broke the mold it would set off a chain reaction for white kids and teens to give them the message that they can excel just as blacks do. I called it the Sehorn effect. I was under the delusion that after Sehorn's incredible 1997 season a whole bunch of Jersey and NY kids would want to emulate him. I guess I was wrong.
I was under the hope that Lemaitre would get a whole bunch of white French kids and teens into sprinting but for the last five years all you see at the French junior and senior level are all black sprinters outside of Pierre Personeaux but he has never broken 10.3 in the 100 anyhow.
I find it strange that Nicolas Macrozanaris from Canada as a teen emulated the Jamaican/Canadian 1996 gold champ ( his name eludes me ) and he said he got into track because of watching this black non-real Canadian. Strange how a white kid would want to be a fast guy watching a black guy do it as opposed as a white. I guess this is how brainwashed most of white society around the world is. Just my opinion htough some silly liberal is going to argue it should not matter what the race/ethnicity is that a kid might want to emulate in a sport as they get older.

 

[white is right]

I complain about this constantly on track message boards.
What's the point of competing under different nation's flags, if anyone can become a citizen of any country.
Turkey competed in the European Championships with a team made up almost entirely of non-Turks.

Supposedly this citizenship for hire Olympic athlete is going to have the rules tightened up. Maybe they will go back to the old rules of living in a country for X years before being granted new citizenship. Case in point Turkey which has a freedom of speech crack down at the moment yet has all of these athletes willing to run for a government that in theory will limit their right to assembly and free speech.