What is the fastest 100m ran by a caucasion person?

[Sharmer]

@fogelson

To give you an idea, are you telling me it is cultural influences that let Usain go sub 20 as a teen and Tim Montgomery sub 10 as a teen? You’re telling me the cultural influences were so incredibly strong that no amount of training, supplementation, diet, etc. from the numerous Caucasians over the previous decades could overcome that? Give me a break. Do you have some complex about this? Nobody is saying to throw out the baby with the bath water because you should do the best with what you have, but to deny there are extremely strong genetic predispositions would be equally stupid.

I don’t deny the genetic predisposition for speed, I am simply saying that we don’t know what these genes are and we do not know what variations exist within differing racial groups. Using performance norms to justify a genetic argument doesn’t work.