Am building up to a big post on West vs East European character and one of the unusual contentions I'll make is that differences in personality are related to athletic differences: Slavs being more muscular, but like American blacks more likely to break down over long distances.
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I recorded the nationalities of Europe's top 50 marathon and 1500m guys and they do show a West European bias, the Spanish doing especially well, which is probably relevant to their success in soccer. These figures show top runners per million in countries with 3+ names.pic.twitter.com/57o8ZcGiiB
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It has became very apparently recently that Norwegians, like white Marathon record Sondre Moen, have by far the strongest lungs in Europe. The top 4 VO2 max scores in history are Norwegianhttps://training4endurance.co.uk/physiology-of-endurance/vo2max/ …
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It's a testament to how powerfully VO2 predicts endurance that the .best American score ever was produced was Greg LeMond, the only American to win the Tour de France without using EPO. It was Lance Armstrong's relatively low V02 that set LeMond on his trail in the 90's
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From a 1991 paper: "Of 13 racial groups whose lung function data were analysed, the highest VC (vital capacity) and the highest value for relative sitting height were found in Eskimos followed by Scandinavians, Caucasians, Koreans and American Indians." https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/erj/4/7/829.full.pdf …
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They don't have higher V02 than elite European endurance runners; their advantages are in other areas. It's not a really surprise because larger chests house larger lungs and Kenyans are quite thinly built.
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