The DNA Olympics -- Jamaicans Win Sprinting 'Genetic Lottery' -- and Why We Should All Care

Forbes ^ | 8/12/2012

[Tallguy]

Recall that 2 US sprinters, Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson, were given the wrong schedules and so missed their qualifying heats for the 100M. Both sprinters later participated in the Gold Medal 4x100 relay. Borzov had very good technique, but his 10.14 was SLOW. The Americans (West African decent) both posted times around 9.9.

[super7man]

I have a friend whose recreation is to run deer to exhaustion. He is an amazing cross country runner. More like a dog than a man, once he gets going. The deer eventually give up and are very docile.

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By the way, cheetah are reportedly not very good for eating.

No, but they are fun to chase away from their prey when the are too exhausted to defend it...

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I’d starve. I’m good for about 50m. Still, I’m pretty sure we’re the same species...

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Obama brags about being a member of the state of Hawaii high school boy’s championship basketball team. He might as well have been cheerleader - he was just a benchsitter - never a starter. How embarrassing to have to “seal” your hs bb records!

I 2008 we saw Obama in Germany sink a jump shot for the media cameras - but it was his seventh shot - he missed the first six shots - which he called his ‘warmup practice shots’

The media made it look like Obama made his first shot - It actually as a set-up - shoot until Obama finally made a shot -

His hs teammates say he used to walk off the bb court stomping in anger - sound familiar?

Now Sarah Palin - she did sink the foul shot that won the Alaska state girl’s bb championship -

Recall Obama’s lame attempt at bowling?

A sick chimp would have beaten Obama.

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A sick chimp would have beaten Obama.

Unfortunately the GOPe ran McCain against him.

[rabidralph]

LOL!

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Close enough!

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[vetvetdoug]

"Jamaican coat of arms features Indians, not Africans"

At least the Jamaicans know their heritage, unlike the blow hard libtards using Obama's techniques for creating discord.

[jakerobins]

Ehh...You didn't run that race! Someone had to build that track......

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“I did not snort that blow!

- Somebody had to grow, process, smuggle, step on it, and sell it to me!”

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Does running faster on a curve ring your bell?

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[x]

Libtards are always quick to claim that Jamaicans are descended from Africans.

Most people will "claim" that most Jamaicans are largely descended from Africans, though of course there are Arawak and European strains in their ancestry.

They forget that the Quakers and Pennsylvanians sold Native Americans into slavery that were then shipped to Jamaica.

It wasn't uncommon for Whites or Indians to be enslaved. That it was Quakers in particular (as opposed to other groups) who did so, and that Quakers shipped large numbers of Indians from the mainland to Jamaica are debatable claims.

If you have any evidence that this happened on any significant scale provide it now or be proved a liar.

[Dysart]

I’ll just wait until Al Campanis weighs in, thank you very much.

[lacrew]

“There is zero record of slaveholders intentionally breeding humans for traits”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_breeding_in_the_United_States

[Dysart]

I see now old Al was referenced in the story. Funny stuff.

[Caipirabob]

Black Freepers, here's your chance to make a humanitarian gesture and offer to "redistribute" your DNA free of charge to all who ask...

; D

[RedMDer]

[Caipirabob]

In before obama takes credit for black DNA...