Take gymnastics coaching guru Bela Karolyi. Coaching takes a toll on everyone, including the coach. Karolyi coaches multiple women's Olympic gymnastics champions. He isn't going to waste his/her time on an untalented gymnast, no matter how hard she works or how much he is paid. If you don't have the required talent, you won't be invited into Karolyi's gym. Once inside, the gymnast has to work and work and work.The same is true at the highest levels of all sports.
Made, though having a genetic predisposition helps a lot.
Mainly is a matter of luck. If you are really good at a sport and you are lucky enough to be able and to compete, then you train a lot and improve and you can become an Olympic athlete.
Hard Work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. You can be born a great athlete but you have to work for it. If Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali never trained then they wouldn't be considered as two of the greatest athletes ever.
every great olympians knows the importance of Olympism and the Olympic values in creating hope.....
A universal language full of positive values, sport and Olympism may be regarded as “vehicles of hope”. Indeed, the Olympic values of “Striving for excellence”, “Demonstrating respect” and “Celebrating friendship” are aimed at encouraging people to get on better and thus promoting peace.
Being a fantastic showcase for the peaceful rivalry between nations through sports competitions, the Olympic Games have a very important symbolic value, and have been associated with promoting peace from the very beginning.
Sport and Olympism are, by their very essence, “bearers of hope”, both collectively (as they can become platforms to promote peace) and indi- vidually (as they enable skills to be developed).
In the association between Olympism and hope, we can distinguish three dimensions: human, political and societal, which can be “crossed” with the collective and individual levels... and the etc...
So what is yours thought....?
Hope Seeing you in Pyeongchang 2018.
Both. It takes a life dedicated to training to become Olympic level, but you also need the right body and genetics to be #1 in your sport. A short man with short legs is not going to be a champion runner, for example, just like Michahel Phelp's long arms and oversized hands give him a natural advantage over competitors.
Made, Olympic athletes are molded like clay from years of training and planning
Talent is most important in becoming an elite athlete but you must train and develop that talent.
Athletes are born but must work to attain their potential, you can not train someone without talent regardless how hard they work.
If that were true then everyone could be an elite athlete.
Born with their natural ability.
It takes a certain kind of character and a very inspiriing coach.
Both.
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