1. Although the role of genes plays a factor in athletic performance, the process of translating it to the actual playing field is a lot more difficult and important. For this reason, I do believe that sports are fair. In Farrey’s argument, he points out studies that showed that genes appear to deserve credit for about two-thirds of vertical leaping ability and that balance and flexibility are at least somewhat inherited. However, most of becoming a great performer in sport is all in the head and being a hard worker. “The biggest difference among athletes are in the head”, as Farrey provides us with in the book. A good example of a great performer who was a subpar athlete was Bill Walton, a UCLA basketball standout. Walton didn’t become an outstanding basketball player because of his genes, but rather he wasn’t going to let anything get in the way of his dream of becoming a basketball player.
2. The California Cyrobank case is one of the strangest cases I have ever heard. To me, it shows how important the role of sports in society is that some people would be willing to pay the outrageous money so that their kid could be “tall and coordinated”, let’s say. As CEO Gary Weinhouse says, “ Parents don’t want their child to be picked on, they want him or her to make the team and not have to sit on the bench”.
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I do believe Talent ID would be beneficial for a lot of children in today’s world who may have natural skill in a sport like rugby that isn’t taught frequently to young children today. On the other hand, Talent ID may not be the answer because a lot of kids may have a particular set of skills in a given sport at a younger age, but then develop a new set of skills for one of the mainstream sports a little later on in life. Also, even with Talent ID, it should be up to kids what sport they want to spend their time playing, whether they are talented at it or not. Sometimes, hard work and perseverance is all you need to craft your skill and master a
2. The California Cyrobank case is one of the strangest cases I have ever heard. To me, it shows how important the role of sports in society is that some people would be willing to pay the outrageous money so that their kid could be “tall and coordinated”, let’s say. As CEO Gary Weinhouse says, “ Parents don’t want their child to be picked on, they want him or her to make the team and not have to sit on the bench”.
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I do believe Talent ID would be beneficial for a lot of children in today’s world who may have natural skill in a sport like rugby that isn’t taught frequently to young children today. On the other hand, Talent ID may not be the answer because a lot of kids may have a particular set of skills in a given sport at a younger age, but then develop a new set of skills for one of the mainstream sports a little later on in life. Also, even with Talent ID, it should be up to kids what sport they want to spend their time playing, whether they are talented at it or not. Sometimes, hard work and perseverance is all you need to craft your skill and master a