Re: Why are Kenyans so fast and US distance runners so slow?

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From: Tord G.M. Malmgren
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:43

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In article <1993Jan22.185421.21108@crd.ge.com>, berkery@emmax5crd.ge.com (jack berkery) writes:

>Congratulations, you discovered through personal experience exactly what took
>tens of thousands of dollars for the Swedish Olympic team to figure out :-}

 they wanted a "good" reason to go on vacation... :)

>Bottom line: Nothing genetically special about them. It seems distance running
>is Kenya's national sport and gets all the best athletes. You should have told
>them and saved Swedish taxpayers some money.

 it wouldn't have saved any money; they get a certain amount of money
each year, and they can do whatever they want to do with it, it still
cost the tax payers the same :)
 see the reason above "why" they went to Kenya...

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