Cut and Run

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Legions of athletes, sports gurus, and scientists have tried to figure out why Kenyans dominate long-distance running. In this short, we stumble across a surprising, and sort of terrifying, explanation.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:02.7	Okay.
0:04.0	All right.
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0:06.6	All right.
0:08.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:10.9	Radio Lab.
0:11.5	Shorts.
0:13.0	From W. N. Y.
0:15.3	C.
0:16.3	See?
0:16.6	Yes.
0:17.9	And NPR.
0:20.4	Hey, I'm Chadabumrod. I'm Robert Krollwick. This is Radio Lab, the podcast. And today, since we are right about to have the New York City Marathon zip through our neighborhoods here in New York. We have a puzzle. Yeah, it's a puzzle. It's a puzzle. It's a, yes, it is a puzzle. And it comes from NPR's East Africa correspondent Gregory Warner.
0:39.4	I prepared for this story by taking a jog through Nairobi.
0:45.0	Well, all right.
0:45.7	So where do we start with this, Greg?
0:47.1	I think we should start in 1968.
0:49.5	I mean, there's a lot of places we could start, but let's start there.
0:51.6	Let's try it.
0:52.2	So, 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
0:56.0	Mexico City, thankfully a city of peace on the Olympic opening day.
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