Steve, all Olympians work to be the best in the world. There is no easy approach to being an Olympian. And you can’t compare sprinting workouts to long distance. The training routines are completely different for good reasons. 
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Replying to @achilles1974 @Steve_Sailer
But the entire point of this argument is that the environmentalist view is based on the idea that blacks, being poorer, are overrepresented in sport because they work harder and are willing to sacrifice health for wealth. That doesn't actually fit with their areas of dominance.
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Replying to @arnolfson @achilles1974
In major league baseball, for example, there are more African-American centerfielders than catchers, which isn't suggestive that America blacks are making the biggest sacrifices to succeed in baseball.
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Literally cannot think of one black athlete to don the tools of ignorance since Campanella
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Replying to @TBelaviv @llsamueljames and
There were plenty of good African-American catchers in the 1960s and into the 1970s. But as black culture got bored with baseball in favor of basketball and football, there was a huge drop off in blacks at technical positions of catcher and pitcher vs. outfield and first base.
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Replying to @TBelaviv @Steve_Sailer and
CC Sabathia (ret), David Price, and Johnny Cueto come to mind as recent examples. Overall, though, just 14 (7 starters) out of 449 pitchers were black in 2016 (most recent # I could find)
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Replying to @financierponty @TBelaviv and
Lots of fine black pitchers from the islands, like Pedro Martinez, as great a technician as ever pitched. But in integrated U.S. baseball at the travel team level, the rare blacks are usually so fast that they play centerfield and aren't asked to learn to catch or pitch.
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Replying to @Steve_Sailer @TBelaviv and
I forgot Cueto’s not American, I’m a bit of a casual myself lol True enough about centerfield, the pros usually hone in on their role very early on. Gotta play to one’s strengths
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That's not actually true. Almost all position players in MLB played CF or SS until the pro level.
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