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Olympic success: Is it genes or training?

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February 12, 2014

Those Olympic athletes sure do train hard. If you’ve been watching the Sochi Olympics – sitting warm and comfortable on you couch – maybe you’ve wondered, “What if I trained that hard? Could I be an Olympic athlete?”

Here’s a video from asapSCIENCE on which is more important to your athletic success, your genes or hard work.

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Eleanor Imster

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Eleanor Imster has helped write and edit EarthSky since 1995. She was an integral part of the award-winning EarthSky radio series almost since it began until it ended in 2013. She and her husband live in Tennessee, where they enjoy guitar playing and singing. They have 2 grown sons.