Something I noticed with the olympics

[crocket]

When watching the swimming races, almost all the athletes are white. This goes for both male and female. In track and field running races, almost all of the athletes are black. This is also for both male, and female. Its like land and water races are segregated by race. Why is it like this?

 

[LKD]

When watching the swimming races, almost all the athletes are white. This goes for both male and female. In track and field running races, almost all of the athletes are black. This is also for both male, and female. Its like land and water races are segregated by race. Why is it like this?

almost all? are you saying there was a single black swimmer? what about asians?

 

[shack]

When watching the swimming races, almost all the athletes are white. This goes for both male and female. In track and field running races, almost all of the athletes are black. This is also for both male, and female. Its like land and water races are segregated by race. Why is it like this?

Caucasians' bones are less dense so they are more bouyant.

 

[Frosty]

What's more important? Land or water. Humans don't live in the ocean.

Note: that I'm only j/king.

 

[TeasePlease]

Caucasians' bones are less dense so they are more bouyant.

Or you might say that blacks have more muscle mass, which is less buoyant.

 

[oldjones]

Olympic swimming is extremely technical, and it's the white folks who have the expensive technology: Swimming pools.

All sorts of folks can find room to run for free, and it's not at all hard to measure a course, make a finish line and judge a race for nothing.

But you'll never master the turns, dives and timing without a regulation pool to train in. Poorer countries have very few.

You're seeing rich skin, not white skin.

 

[GrandBlasterK]

When watching the swimming races, almost all the athletes are white. This goes for both male and female. In track and field running races, almost all of the athletes are black. This is also for both male, and female. Its like land and water races are segregated by race. Why is it like this?

Well, this is why when you've got a talented black swimmer like Cullen Jones, he commands a lot of respect. The real handicap for blacks is their bone density, which creates resistance through the water.

 

[LKD]

Well, this is why when you've got a talented black swimmer like Cullen Jones, he commands a lot of respect. The real handicap for blacks is their bone density, which creates resistance through the water.

oh man! micheal phelps is one hell of an ugly guy xDD probably just bitter from not winning any gold. Seems like he saying, ' why are you making me pose for a pic.. its just a silver.. i got 8 or so gold medals

 

[dj1470]

White men can't jump?
Black men can't swim?

 

[borntosoon]

Most people in the Caribbean can't swim. Being close to water doesn't make you a swimmer any more than being next to a beautiful woman makes you beautiful.

 

[Insidious Von]

Certainly not for a lack of water around the islands.

When you have to flee from an angry Baby Mama, a crack deal gone bad or a robbery by swimming away (rather than running) then maybe the schvartzes will start doing better in the swimming events.

Extremely racist remark but also incredibly funny as well. ROTFLMAO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRfVbNtjFTI

 

[crocket]

almost all? are you saying there was a single black swimmer? what about asians?

Yea I saw an asian chinese woman win a gold medal. So asians and south asians are somewhere between whites and blacks when it comes to bone density and muscle mass?

 

[bababuey]

this piece in the nyt discusses similar such points.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/sunday-review/why-olympic-records-are-broken-or-not.html

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

I thought it was a generally well known stereotype that Blacks are poor swimmers.

And dont get mad at me please, I didnt coin the stereotype

 

[lovelatinas]

Olympic swimming is extremely technical, and it's the white folks who have the expensive technology: Swimming pools.

All sorts of folks can find room to run for free, and it's not at all hard to measure a course, make a finish line and judge a race for nothing.

But you'll never master the turns, dives and timing without a regulation pool to train in. Poorer countries have very few.

You're seeing rich skin, not white skin.

And Equestrian is rich skin and mostly white people.

 

[lovelatinas]

I thought it was a generally well known stereotype that Blacks are poor swimmers.

And dont get mad at me please, I didnt coin the stereotype

And White people not fast runners. How many white sprinters will be in the 100 metre finals in London.

Here is the fastest white man in the world today http://charlie180.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/the-fastest-ever-white-man/ . At 9.98 seconds he is a mile behind Bolt's 9.58.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

And White people not fast runners. How many white sprinters will be in the 100 metre finals in London.

Here is the fastest white man in the world today http://charlie180.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/the-fastest-ever-white-man/ . At 9.98 seconds he is a mile behind Bolt's 9.58.

Yeah, we suck at basketball too.

Actually 9.98 is pretty good for white boy

 

[Possum Trot]

Olympic swimming is extremely technical, and it's the white folks who have the expensive technology: Swimming pools.

All sorts of folks can find room to run for free, and it's not at all hard to measure a course, make a finish line and judge a race for nothing.

But you'll never master the turns, dives and timing without a regulation pool to train in. Poorer countries have very few.

You're seeing rich skin, not white skin.

Perhaps you'd like to apply your simplistic theories to American football or basketball. Better yet to modern times maybe. How many white kids own olympic sized pools or practice their racing turns or 3 metre diving in the backyard pool? No one got to the olympics because of backyard pools old man.

I buy your outdated and obviously flawed theory if we were talking golf or even tennis where memberships are costly but there is something else going on here. We aren't just talking North America but worldwide. Predominantly black countiries with a proximity to water such as South Africa or a host of Carribean nations have yet to produce even a winning distance swimmer of note.

In the US competitive swimming is mainly a school sport with scholarships at the university level so there goes your argument there. There are in fact 3 black swimmers on the US team but even that is far under the population average.

Try again.

 

[Rockslinger]

Most Euro nations have a long seagoing history. Maybe that is why they have so many swimmers.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Olympic swimming is extremely technical, and it's the white folks who have the expensive technology: Swimming pools.

All sorts of folks can find room to run for free, and it's not at all hard to measure a course, make a finish line and judge a race for nothing.

But you'll never master the turns, dives and timing without a regulation pool to train in. Poorer countries have very few.

You're seeing rich skin, not white skin

Thats horseshit, because almost every major US university has an olympic size pool. Yet you rarely see black swimmers getting scholarships