Size and sport

Today, the New York Times posted and article in their Fitness and Nutrition section titled "Bigger Is Better, Except When It’s Not". In the article, they expound the various competitive advantages and disadvantages posed by different body sizes. As sport performances continually push the limits of human capacity, such sport selection based on body type, limb length, size and shape, is automatic. Though there will always be the occasional exceptions, the majority of elite athletes in a given sport will share not only physiological capacities, but will have similar body types or anthropometry. Does this mean that we should use the old Soviet system of selecting our elite athletes at a young age based on predicted anthropometric measures? At the Bat Cave we often see young athletes develop gifts and change their physical proportions during their athletic careers...

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