I totally agree our fastest citizens wind up in football, but I think the transition would be tough after years of specifically training to be an NFL player. Not to mention the way football bangs you up. A 25 year old WR is probably less healthy than a 30 year old sprinter.
I was born in South Texas, in the 70's, so I was indoctrinated into Dallas Cowboys Football before I could talk.
Basketball and the Spurs became my second sport in 1988 from watching a random game on the TV. It even got me to join and play for my HS basketball team.
I tried to get into Soccer. My wife is Mexican and she has those basic Mexican loves: Baseball and Futbol. I tried. I liked baseball, that was no problem. There was so much strategy from moment to moment in baseball that I could instantly recognize.
That was cool and we, here in El Paso, have a great little stadium to watch our AAA team.
But soccer's different. I got it, but I couldn't get into it. I liked the lack of commercials and when a team would get into a scoring position, but the rest of it was lost on me. Maybe my fault...
Then I watched Rugby Union. Holy . It was like soccer, but fun to watch. Those guys go til they are dying, by the end of the match. Warriors. So Rugby has become my 3rd sport, and is fast becoming my 2nd sport the more I watch it.
Really good .
If you've only encountered Spurs fans, yes. But generally, NBA "fans" are pretty ignorant.
I would counter that by saying they get even faster in the league with all the specialized speed training techniques they receive to increase explosiveness. I can see the injury angle though. I still say of healthy and with a couple years back on the track they could get it done. We might or might not have a guy that could take Bolt down in the 100/200, but they'd dominate the relay.
5'10" is also the ideal height of a fatbol player if he checks in around 250 lbs. Smaller strike zone, can still pound beers, fried chicken and chimney smoke during games without anyone being the wiser.
Too bad the fatbol meme isn't based in reality.
13.8% body fat league wide
I'm a non rugby person but the Rugby 7s at the Olympics was brilliant. Anybody watch that stuff?
The US gymnastic coach is Romanian
The Karoylis are American citizens though and have lived here for almost 40 years. And now a days, they're basically babysitters. The individual athletes are coached by their personal coaches and gyms.The US gymnastic coach is Romanian
ex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Boorman
Casual fans of anything are equally stupid, tbh. There's not much of a difference between Porker fluffers and people who think Newton and Struggle Wilson are good quarterbacks.
Wonder what white Americans think about not being able to represent their country animore due to their athletic limitation?
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Handegg
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Egghands and Baseball were invented so the American "athlete" would only run 10-30 seconds every couple of minutes or not at all. And every time a team loses possession of the ball they take a short break and have a snack. ing Americans creating sports where they can still be fat and lazy. „
I would imagine they're okay with it.
How's Colombia doing?
Most notable athlete is a woman
No hate, though. I'm Southern Californian, so BMX is in my blood, and Pajon is a beast and quite the looker.
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Ledecky can't run a 9 minute mile or complete 5 unassisted pulls ups but she sure can dominate a segregated sport.
I don't follow Ball, is this US Womens Basketball team the best USA team ever?
The best Ball team ever globally?
And Usain Bolt has never ran a mile and would probably die before completing 1500m swimming.Ledecky can't run a 9 minute mile or complete 5 unassisted pulls ups but she sure can dominate a segregated sport.
Swimming>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>p hysically taxing than running.
Pretty sure a Kenyan marathon runners could complete a 1500m better than your average "9 minute mile" couch potato & female sprinters can complete more than 3 unassisted pulls ups.
When he had Ledecky undergo a battery of physical-assessment tests at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, one of the first sentences of the opening summary, according to Gemmell, referred to her as “remarkably unremarkable.”
Kris "half-black" Humphries used to bust Phelps ass but swimming is more physically taxing than basketball.
You had one black swimmer on the US team & she won Gold that's 1-to-1 ratio of black swimmers to Gold medals."I was so good at a young age that I got a little burnt out," Humphries said. "I also grew up in the Michael Jordan era ... for me, I watched [basketball] and saw it as a challenge. It's hard to stay focused on something when you have a ton of success at a young age, so I picked up basketball a little later and rolled with that."
........just wait till Kenyans have access to Olympic sized pools like Missy "no medals" Franklin.
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Why do you fetishize black athletes so much, bro? It's like you think that if they just had the "opportunity," they would dominate because they're good at basketball and running.Pretty sure a Kenyan marathon runner could complete a 1500m swim without dying if they lived in the pool & female sprinters can complete more than 3 unassisted pulls ups.
Blacks will never be on the level of white swimmers due to physiology as much as a white will be on the level of black sprinters and Kenyan distance runners. And Asians and Slavs are tailormade for weightlifting.
And you conveniently left out this point about Ledecky:By contrast, whites tend to have the advantage in swimming, where a longer torso allows for faster speeds.
"Swimming actually generates a wave. The sport is the art of surfacing on that wave. When the wave is bigger – because the torso is longer – they go faster," Bejan said.
The study was published online this week in the International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics.
When he began coaching Ledecky in 2012
Gonna laugh when Serbia hands these ass clowns the silver, tbh.
SchtickLedecky can't run a 9 minute mile or complete 5 unassisted pulls ups but she sure can dominate a segregated sport.
Ample time to prepare
murica
What an ignorant comment
WTF, didn't you just see Simone Manuel win a bunch of gold medals in swimming?Ledecky can't run a 9 minute mile or complete 5 unassisted pulls ups but she sure can dominate a segregated sport.
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