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This was the part I meant was plausible but hard to verify: That causes athletes' genetic gifts to overshadow their hard work. Obviously successful s
by pg 16y ago
This was the part I meant was plausible but hard to verify:
That causes athletes' genetic gifts to
overshadow their hard work.
Obviously successful swimmers have to be tall, but merely being 6' 4" isn't the sort of genetic gift that's so rare it outweighs effort.
- briancooley 16y agoI should have added "in the minds of observers." to make that sentence clearer. It's more a statement about human nature than the relative weighting of the ingredients most vital to elite athletic success.