International audienceScientific studies on East-African distance runners usually follow the long tradition of research on ’Black’ populations, stating in essence that ‘these people are different from us‘. Generations of researchers have been basing their works on this undeclared and often unconscious premise, successively in medicine, phrenology, anatomy, physiology and more recently in genetics. And although very few of them would admit it in public, none of these research works has ever found any evidence of a more fundamental difference than the pigmentation of the skin to characterize the difference between these populations and others. Yet this paradigm is still in force, based on the deeply-rooted belief of a biological otherness of ...
Kenya has been very successful at middle and long distance races in international competitions for t...
A look at the medal podium in almost any international sporting competition reveals that some athlet...
It is becoming more important for sport scientists from Africa, who are world leaders in their own f...
International audienceScientific studies on East-African distance runners usually follow the long tr...
publisher[Abstract] Over the last few decades, East African runners have dominated international lon...
A look at the medal podium in almost any international sporting competition reveals that some athlet...
What makes East African middle and long distance runners the best in the world? How should contempor...
East African athletes now dominate international distance running events from the 800 m to the marat...
Since the 1960s, East African athletes, mainly from Kenya and Ethiopia, have dominated long-distance...
The primary objective of these experiments was to assess the environmental and genetic contributors ...
Contents: Introduction Notes on Contributors Part 1: Socio-Economic and Cultural Perspectives 1. Ken...
A look at the medal podium in almost any international sporting competition reveals that some athlet...
[Abstract] Over the last few decades, East African runners have dominated international long-distanc...
Since the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Kenyan and Ethiopian runners have dominated the middle- and lon...
DESCRIPTION "East African Running: Toward a Cross-disciplinary Perspective" examines the secret of t...
Kenya has been very successful at middle and long distance races in international competitions for t...
A look at the medal podium in almost any international sporting competition reveals that some athlet...
It is becoming more important for sport scientists from Africa, who are world leaders in their own f...
International audienceScientific studies on East-African distance runners usually follow the long tr...
publisher[Abstract] Over the last few decades, East African runners have dominated international lon...
A look at the medal podium in almost any international sporting competition reveals that some athlet...
What makes East African middle and long distance runners the best in the world? How should contempor...
East African athletes now dominate international distance running events from the 800 m to the marat...
Since the 1960s, East African athletes, mainly from Kenya and Ethiopia, have dominated long-distance...
The primary objective of these experiments was to assess the environmental and genetic contributors ...
Contents: Introduction Notes on Contributors Part 1: Socio-Economic and Cultural Perspectives 1. Ken...
A look at the medal podium in almost any international sporting competition reveals that some athlet...
[Abstract] Over the last few decades, East African runners have dominated international long-distanc...
Since the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Kenyan and Ethiopian runners have dominated the middle- and lon...
DESCRIPTION "East African Running: Toward a Cross-disciplinary Perspective" examines the secret of t...
Kenya has been very successful at middle and long distance races in international competitions for t...
A look at the medal podium in almost any international sporting competition reveals that some athlet...
It is becoming more important for sport scientists from Africa, who are world leaders in their own f...