Why are there not any world class black swimmers?

There are a few. But, there are a few issues.

1. blacks tend to have more muscle making it harder to float and therefore require more propulsion.

2. young athletes tend to want to emulate their heroes, it's easy to spot african american football, baseball, and basketball stars, and there are even a lot of track stars, soccer players, and even some high profile tennis players, but there just aren't a lot of black swimmers.

3. swimmers generally come from fairly affluent households because of the costs of lessons, tournaments, coaches, etc. minorities are even smaller minorities in those circles.

Mostly because they end up going into basketball and football. Same thing with Ice Hockey, there are so few black hockey players, baseball is dominated by the mexican and caribbean population, That is where money is, that is where they go. It is also a matter of resources, many neighborhoods that are african american dominated don't have the training facilities and coaching necessary to create a world class swimmer, but basketball only takes a hoop and a ball.

I think this is a sociological question rather than a biological question. Despite phenotypical differences between races, usually we can match each other in whichever field. It'd be interesting to see the amount of black and asian kids who participate in swimming compared to white kids. I suspect your answer may be there.

black people aren't built for swimming. they have a higher bone density, which makes them sink more easily, requiring them to put more energy to swim than would a white person. they have more muscle, and muscle sinks in water, so thats a double whammy.

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there are- Cullen Jones. He competed in the Olympics in Beijing last summer.

Why aren't there any french?

Don't know if that's true or not...haha but does it really matter?

-Livy(:

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