Torah from Brazil - the Olympics and Noah.

Paulinho Rosenbaum

Sociologist from the University of Haifa, specializes me to open paths within the Jewish knowledge and improve communication between Jews and non-Jews. This is an open way to communicate with the Jews of Israel, USA, Canada, Europe or those living in Latin America, but do not speak Portuguese (in Brazil) and Spanish (all other countries, and the Guianas)

The Olympic Tropicasher.

Noah had three sons: Shem, father of the Semitic peoples; Japheth, parents of Caucasian or Nordic peoples and Cham, parents of African peoples and East Asians. Today the mix between these people is clear but we can still notice a few key points, which appear to tacitly in sports:

• Why do people of some races seem to be better at certain sports?

In the US, black athletes are more successful in running and boxing, but are almost unknown at the highest levels of swimming competition, or weight lifting for example.

According to Will Wister blacks have longer legs relative to its height, effectively, giving them the physical benefits of a taller person, while reducing the amount of body weight that their legs need to move. The result is that blacks are usually able to move faster on land than Caucasian people of comparable height.

In contrast, overall, the longest arms of the Caucasian peoples [white] are advantageous because the arms are extremely important for propulsion. As Caucasians have longer arms, in relation to its height, it ends up turning into advantage. Same appears to be on weight lifting or dards launch.

What about the Jews...?