? 'bout -> Le Tour de France

by sAm. • 19 Jul 2007, 17:20 • Journals
Hejjhejj!
sCienTia has got a question for all of you.
"I watch sometimes to the 'tour'. This evening, I was eating with my father & mother. My father said who won the etappe. And suddenly I noticed that there are almost no black runners."

Does someone have a explanation for that?
Thanks in advance. Sam.
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hkrep 19 Jul 2007, 18:21
black people cant afford the dope...
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joey 19 Jul 2007, 18:22
there are almost no black hockey players aswell...why?
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Slay0r 19 Jul 2007, 18:22
maybe they can't afford bikes...
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resku 19 Jul 2007, 18:24
They are catching up; even in tennis and f1!

MAAR: ALLez ALLez ZIMBABWé
http://www.vtm.be/asx/index.php?/allez_allez_zimbabwe/allez_allez_zimbabwe_afl3
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Viax 19 Jul 2007, 18:24
they're more suited for running due to their build
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Alpine 19 Jul 2007, 18:47
bullcrap if a person can run it can ride a bicicle its all about the legs. wich isnt the problem with black people.
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Viax 19 Jul 2007, 19:00
obviously they can ride bicycles, that wasnt my point. depending on where they are from, black people are either muscular and explosive and suited for short distances, or suited for longer ranges. ofcourse there are also people in between, but those are a really small minority. if they're suited for short range they're often too heavy and not suited for riding 200km through the mountains. if they're suited for longer distances they're usually too light and not explosive enough to get up to 40/35 km/h.

ofcourse there are people who have both and are suited for cycling, but those tend to start running anyways, as that seems to be in their nature
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Cokeser 19 Jul 2007, 19:18
Agreed.

Idd there are genetic reasons, why black ppl from Western Africa - as most of the US-blacks are - have a muscle building, which is especially suited for short, but high exertions, while Eastern Africans, e.g. Ethiopians, mostly have another muscle type built for longer distances.

I think that cycling is firstly a crappy sport and secondly that it's a mixture of both types which I mentioned above - and that blacks just have other "conditions" so that they can pwn in other sports.
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chaoZ 19 Jul 2007, 18:25
blacks cant afford those expensive pro bikes. thats why they run marathons

(have you ever seen a monkey riding a bike? lolol .. no seriously joking ;D)
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sAm. 19 Jul 2007, 18:29
do you really think they must pay their bikes by themselves?
ever heard 'bout a team?
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chaoZ 19 Jul 2007, 18:31
you dont start in a team, and to get the attention you need to drive in a team you need to be good --> buy a good bike by yourself

probably the same as in tennis, the rich kids sport :P

btw are you some kind of gipsy? your nick makes me think about gipsys :s
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Dr.Lektroluv 19 Jul 2007, 18:26
because they cant ride a bike that fast
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Boefje 19 Jul 2007, 19:06
Everybody knows they are made for running. Running for water, running for the police, etc.
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nAz 19 Jul 2007, 19:16
black ppl don't have trainingschools in their country...
and such trainingschool help you to the top...
without such a school you have to do it all by yourself...
the few black ryders we have are integrated imo^^
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annajUNIOR 19 Jul 2007, 19:16
actually a good question when you think of this: Results 1 - 10 of about 124,000 for nigga stole my bike. (0.19 seconds)
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dust-RvN 19 Jul 2007, 19:19
i do loads of biking myself and i actually ran into two black bikers during my 9 months in england and they were unordinary built tbh- very, I mean VERY skinny and stuff, so very unordinary build for a afro-american

basically there are many reasons and probably the biggest is the tradition aspect, just it isn't popular in their neighbourhoods to ride a bike( be it in some paris suburb or in the harlem)
and also it has to do with their build of their body, they are just less talented than white men in some aspects. Like out science teacher told has he has never seen a black scientist in his life, altough he's been all around the world at science meetings and stuff etc(science I mean physics basically)
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Fex 19 Jul 2007, 19:25
Are there actually black gamers?
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