Hell yeah Wisconsin
Djibouti getting left out
Time for a Djibouti call.
The topography explains it all. https://geology.com/articles/east-africa-rift.shtml
tl;dr The people of that area in East Africa naturally live close to sea level, however there are easily accessible elevations changes that distance runners have trained on for probably centuries. It turns out that training at high altitudes and recovering at low altitudes provides a tangible and demonstrable advantage compared to just single elevation training.
The school of thought has generally changed.
Live high, train low is now the prevailing methodology.
Yeah like the other commenter said this isn’t it, nobody is commuting up and down 10,000’ on a regular basis, especially in antiquity. Just because different elevations “look close” on a map means nothing.
Far more likely is this is a concentrated population of folks with highly desirable traits for distance running.
That’s good. I thought the map was being racist
The map is being racist by labelling Canada, Morocco and USA but not the super-relevant African countries. I’m baffled by that…
Like, I don’t think it’s intentional but how does that happen?
Crazy that most of them come from the same place as our earliest ancestors from 200.000 years ago. Must be a magical place.
the ones in America are ethnically the same ones in Africa
Who are you talking about? Galen Rupp? Grant Fisher? Chris Solinsky?
https://trackandfieldnews.com/tfn-lists/u-s-all-time-list-men/#10k
In a way, we are all from Africa, so he still has a point.
Sorry to be the guy that brings controversial issues to this thread. But this kind of thing is exactly why the “trans women have a biological advantage in sports” argument holds no water. (Other than the fact its almost entirely untrue)
People from this region have a biological advantage in their sports, several orders of magnitude more of an advantage than trans women have. But no one is calling for these people to be banned from sports.
Sorry to be that guy, but this picture gives us no evidence that the advantage of these people is biological and not the result of other factors such as culture or environment.
somebody forgot to label something
Also a region with good coffee. There must be a correlation…
I wonder how much caffeine doping goes on before races. It sure as hell gives me tons of energy
More likely the altitude helps with training & coffee growing, but a little caffeine never hurt
If you can dodge a bullet, you can dodge a ball homie