Physiology
Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis said, “Blacks — physically in many cases — are made better.” Former Israeli Olympic athlete and biomechanist Gideon Ariel agreed, saying:
“I know that the American system is very sensitive to statements of black and white. But you cannot defy science. You cannot just say that day is night and night is day. These are facts. And I think it’s to the advantage of the black athletes to be proud that God was on their side.”
In a 2010 paper, Adrian Bejan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University, and his colleagues reported that Black people have a higher center of mass (i.e. a shorter relative torso) that favors them in running sports and that white people have a lower center of mass that favors them in swimming.
George Mason University researcher Jon Entine, author of Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It, argued that East Africans, such as Kenyans and Ethiopians, excel in long- and middle-distance running because of their slim bodies, slender legs, a preponderance of slow-twitch muscle fibers and a low heart rate gained from living at a high altitude.
