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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 1104776" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>It's no surprise that Phelps got lots of attention given the profile that his achievements gave him, so we know these things. Without a massive academic survey, what's to say that his natural gifts outweigh those of other sports people? All sports people's performance is a function of the gifts they were born with and what they have done with them.</p><p></p><p>Lots of greats have gifts that make them stand out from their peers: Big Mig's lungs the size of a terraced house and low heart rate, Jordan's hands like baseball mitts and crazy vertical, Bolt being half a foot taller than the prototypical 80s/90s sprinter, Lomu having a combination of size and speed / acceleration that hasn't been seen before or since. Where do we draw the line and who is the arbiter of this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 1104776, member: 58362"] It's no surprise that Phelps got lots of attention given the profile that his achievements gave him, so we know these things. Without a massive academic survey, what's to say that his natural gifts outweigh those of other sports people? All sports people's performance is a function of the gifts they were born with and what they have done with them. Lots of greats have gifts that make them stand out from their peers: Big Mig's lungs the size of a terraced house and low heart rate, Jordan's hands like baseball mitts and crazy vertical, Bolt being half a foot taller than the prototypical 80s/90s sprinter, Lomu having a combination of size and speed / acceleration that hasn't been seen before or since. Where do we draw the line and who is the arbiter of this? [/QUOTE]
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