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Originally posted by Tobra
Hate to break it to you, but your opinion is mistaken. A track coach wants to win. Some folks are blessed with a preponderance of fast twitch muscles, some have more slow twitch muscles, and are better suited to different tasks. I have no doubt a 200 kilo sumo wrestler would do well in the strong man competition though.
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Well, I might have picked a poor example. At higher levels, edging out a competitor because you have more fast twitch fibers will make a difference, but the race division exists all the way down to the high school level, where middle-of-the-pack kids are running 4:30 miles and 11.5 second 100-meters. These are good, but not elite, athletes. In my personal experience, that sprinter and that miler will never switch places on the team even though they could probably run the other's event just as well. It's simply because the coach sees a black sprinter and a white miler.