White athletes appear to have a physique between central West Africans and East Africans. Still, it should not be forgotten that ancestry is not destiny. All of the large-scale studies show it, and the data goes back more than a hundred years. But he adds a critical caveat. It is critical to remember that no individual athlete can succeed without the X factor - the lucky spin of the roulette wheel of genetics matched with considerable dedication and sport smarts.
Nature provides an average advantage, yes.
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