I am aware that race is a construct and you’ve done a fine job of chucking in some science that would make this article broadly unreadable (but accurate) - of course ‘black people’ aren’t the best at running in the way this article implies, because there’s already an inherent problem of comparing Mo Farah and Usain Bolt. Who wins that race? Depends which race…. but both are Black men.

The wider point is valid, I’m a dystopian playwright and I don’t understand the science - but the concept of chucking a Jamaican genome into an Asian runner is a close enough approximation for my readers to understand what I mean. If I write a play, I’ll do more research I promise.

And this article is about social engineering around race. You’ve pointed out race doesn’t exist. I agree. Yet daily I wade through a bunch of articles which both centre the concept and demand equality, often on spurious grounds. This happened at the Oscars for example…. There weren’t enough X winners, they’d under represented Y sort of people in the nominations.

The point I’m making here is that this sort of after the fact fiddling the result is counter productive. The correct answer will always be to better fund the talents at an earlier stage, not cheat the results. You cannot argue for equality of outcome without upturning fairness, you must keep fairness and promote talents. Most talents are not related to skin colour, but some talents and skin colours are interrelated due to geographical factors.

As for my genome…. It’s Penguin all the way back to Pterosaurs, and that’s also science. :o)