Originally Posted by Dude
I'll have to disagree with you here. The top athletes are born with certain advantages... height, mass, higher proportion of fast-twitch muscle fibers, etc. These are advantages that no amount of hard work can overcome, because someone born with these attributes who also works hard will win every time.
We're not in disagreement on this.

Why do you think a lack of high intelligence is seen as a tragic flaw? I think that's a good way of putting it, and the best I can come up with is that it has implications for professional success. Maybe it's that intelligence goes to the heart of who you are every waking (and sleeping) moment, whereas sports is something you do that doesn't change who you're seen to be as a person?

Striving to increase my rate of flow, and fight forum gloopiness. sick