{"id":76151,"date":"2015-10-03T19:11:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T03:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76151"},"modified":"2015-10-04T07:10:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T15:10:54","slug":"steve-sailer-videos-of-the-last-8-olympic-100-meter-dash-finals-show-64-out-of-64-were-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76151","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sailer: Videos of the Last 8 Olympic 100 Meter Dash Finals Show 64 Out of 64 Were Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: The most striking statistic in human biodiversity studies was, to the best of my knowledge, first pointed out by Runner’s World<\/em> editor Amby Burfoot<\/a> in an article in the spring of 1992. He noted that in both the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, all eight finalists each time in the men’s 100 meter sprints were black. When you considered that people of substantial sub-Saharan descent only make up a modest fraction of the world’s population, then 16 out of 16 was extraordinary.<\/p>\n

Typically, over 64 sprinters enter the Olympic 100m dash, from a huge range of countries around the world. To make it to the finals, you have to survive the octofinals, quarterfinals, and semifinals. So just making the Olympic finals is a major career accomplishment.<\/p>\n

Astonishingly, however, the same thing has happened six more Olympics in a row since Burfoot’s observation, for a running total of 64 blacks out of the last 64 finalists.<\/p>\n

You can see this stat for yourself in motion: for the record, here are videos of the last eight Olympics’ mens’ 100 meter finals.<\/p>\n