Sunday, August 30, 2015

Melanin: The Black Supremacy Behind the World's Fastest Man



By Matt Majendie, CNN
Updated 1053 GMT (1753 HKT) August 21, 2015
Bolt of Jamaica won in the Men's 100m final at the World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015 Sunday with a time of 9.79 seconds.

A glorified school sports day sets the platform for Jamaica's sprint kings and queens
The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, believes competition is the key to the dominance
(CNN)The United States' population might be 100 times the size of Jamaica's, but when it comes to the development of sprint talent the Caribbean island is in a league of its own.

Of the 12 sprint gold medals on offer at the last two Olympic Games -- in the 100 meters, 200m and 4x100m -- Jamaica's men and women won nine, plus five silvers, while they performed a clean sweep of titles at the last World Athletics Championships in Moscow two years ago.


It's an astonishing haul and, on the eve of the 2015 worlds in Beijing, which start Satu
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