Is track and field more popular in South India?
interestingly (or not?) these guys are from kerala, while the other guy is from tamil nadu. is track and field stuff just more popular in south india? https://t.co/KwRTTpQvLv — Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 (@razibkhan) September 3, 2023
Is track and field more popular in South India?
interestingly (or not?) these guys are from kerala, while the other guy is from tamil nadu. is track and field stuff just more popular in south india? https://t.co/KwRTTpQvLv — Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 (@razibkhan) September 3, 2023
India and the medal hunt in the olympics
No Medals For Brown Men.
No medals for brown men
With 1.3 billion people and 35 medals ever, India remains an Olympic mystery: Scroll, and scroll, and scroll, down the Olympic medal table, and let the eyeballs reach 47th place. […]
In grip strength a woman in the 90th percentile would be at the 10th percentile for men
In relation to the title of this post, it is more accurate to say that a 35 year old British woman who is in the 90th percentile, at 39 kg, would be at the 10th percentile in 35 year old British men. But she would be at the 50th percentile for a 70 year old […]
Individual differences don’t lie
Over at Think Progress there’s a piece titled Why We Can’t Dismiss The NBA Labor Dispute As ‘Millionaires Versus Billionaires’, where the author argues that the players are fundamentally different than the owners in relation to the acquisition of their wealth. There’s a whole lot of prose there, but the first commenter really hit the […]
Taking one’s talents to South Beach
So It didn’t work out for LeBron this year. I suspect it will work in the near future. Remember that it took Shaq and Kobe four years to win their first championship. Talent doesn’t guarantee a championship, but it sure does increase the od…
Hope before the fall
I think it is pretty irrational to bet on the Mavericks against the Heat in the NBA Finals. And since my Celtics lost I haven’t been following what’s going on closely, but I hope Jason Kidd gets his ring. He’s had some ups and downs, …
How much faster
Athlete Atypicity on the Edge of Human Achievement: Performances Stagnate after the Last Peak, in 1988:The growth law for the development of top athletes performances remains unknown in quantifiable sport events. Here we present a growth model for 4135…