And yet Su ran faster than the powerfully muscled sprinters you mentioned..... just give it a rest. I have my own eyes. You trying to convince me that asian sprinters will never be any good won't work, I thought that would have been evident by now. If you are right the time will prove that, I really don't know why you are trying SO hard to convince me.... How about we just agree to disagree and move on?
No, the problem is you are talking about average racial body types in absolute terms. You are trying make out that there will be no Asian sprinters who will be any good because they aren't tall enough and they aren't muscular enough. The problem with that line of thinking is you aren't allowing for the outliers and when you are talking about a population of 1.4 Billion in China alone then you are going to find people are much taller than average and much more muscular than average. You like to claim that Su success is just a law of averages but do you really think that there is only 1 fast human in the whole of China? Or is it more likely that they haven't produced any until now because they weren't focused on sprinting?
No, the problem is you are talking about average racial body types in absolute terms. You are trying make out that there will be no Asian sprinters who will be any good because they aren't tall enough and they aren't muscular enough. The problem with that line of thinking is you aren't allowing for the outliers and when you are talking about a population of 1.4 Billion in China alone then you are going to find people are much taller than average and much more muscular than average. You like to claim that Su success is just a law of averages but do you really think that there is only 1 fast human in the whole of China? Or is it more likely that they haven't produced any until now because they weren't focused on sprinting?
The other big flaw in your thinking is that you have to be tall to be successful at sprinting. Well just looking at the top 10 100m times ever run will tell you that's not true. Only 3 of the top 10 times are by men over 6' tall.
And like I pointed out to you the Chinese are growing taller with each generation faster than pretty much any other country. Chinese sprinters like 6'2" Liu Xiang and 6' 1/2" Xie Zhenye will only become more common.
And how muscular do you need to be to run fast? Su looks muscular enough here compared to Bolt.
And have you seen the Chinese Weightlifting team? Asians can be pretty muscular.
These aren't your average Asians sure but you are far too quick to write them all off as not having a chance. Remember you said an Asian could never run below 9.85 seconds?
No, the problem is you are talking about average racial body types in absolute terms. You are trying make out that there will be no Asian sprinters who will be any good because they aren't tall enough and they aren't muscular enough. The problem with that line of thinking is you aren't allowing for the outliers and when you are talking about a population of 1.4 Billion in China alone then you are going to find people are much taller than average and much more muscular than average. You like to claim that Su success is just a law of averages but do you really think that there is only 1 fast human in the whole of China? Or is it more likely that they haven't produced any until now because they weren't focused on sprinting?
The other big flaw in your thinking is that you have to be tall to be successful at sprinting. Well just looking at the top 10 100m times ever run will tell you that's not true. Only 3 of the top 10 times are by men over 6' tall.
And like I pointed out to you the Chinese are growing taller with each generation faster than pretty much any other country. Chinese sprinters like 6'2" Liu Xiang and 6' 1/2" Xie Zhenye will only become more common.
And how muscular do you need to be to run fast? Su looks muscular enough here compared to Bolt.
And have you seen the Chinese Weightlifting team? Asians can be pretty muscular.
These aren't your average Asians sure but you are far too quick to write them all off as not having a chance. Remember you said an Asian could never run below 9.85 seconds?
Well done. That's hopefully the first step of many for you.
