For most elite athletes, the key to success is exceptional talent and world-class athletic ability.
And after years of playing DH, his athletic ability was, to say the least, marginal.
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Survival means athletic ability, use of weapons like a bow and arrow, and hunting and fishing capabilities.
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Grown-ups identify and coddle those with superior athletic ability at or before puberty.
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"Only the cox of the eight-person sculls could be your 'Average Joe, ' someone without great athletic ability, " says Cao, the team manager.
He has been the face of the team and symbol of everything special about a college student athlete, great character and athletic ability.
His father describes Walter Jr. as a hard worker who started at quarterback in high school one season, more out of grit than athletic ability.
Luckily, his grades were outstanding, as was his athletic ability.
"It was one of the first times I felt I could excel at something with athletic ability, " says Ken Stewart, 52, a USciences alumnus and a pharmacy software specialist in Exton, Pa.
He also still has the pace and athletic ability that made him a junior sprint and high jump champion on the Cote d'Azur and now, after two years playing regularly in France, he has regained his confidence too.
"We know low levels may impact muscle strength and bone turnover, but if an athlete has adequate levels there is no evidence of an enhanced benefit to performance, so natural talent and athletic ability is more likely, " Stevenson told CNN.
Leicester flanker Tom Croft, whose aerial prowess and athletic ability came to the fore in England's final two Six Nations matches, also misses out, along with international team-mate and Wasps fly-half Danny Cipriani and Wales and Ospreys number 10 James Hook.
Thus we can say that among those that we deem to have the credentials to succeed (academic ability), we can also consider other characteristics to shape our individual educational environments- like athletic ability, musical or artistic talent, geographic makeup and yes, even ethnic characteristics.
However, the research presented here does show commonality, in that sports parents are presented with a very vague order: If you want your child to get a college scholarship (or even make the high school team), you have to ensure your child is of a certain athletic ability.
The public schools that are stuck only with players who come from a specific district are merely hopeful that they have enough students with the athletic ability and love of representing their school to stick around and do well, even when the best players are being picked off by private schools.
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Another draw, says Laura Cozik , founder of the Team Lipstick triathlon club, and CNN Fit Nation's Athletic Director, is the ability to cross-train.
With more people active doing outdoor sports, caution about injury and the use of proper athletic equipment is essential not only for self-preservation but also, for joy, health, and the ability to achieve fitness and athletic goals.
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She confessed that she worried that the disease would affect her ability to take part in athletic activity.
The ability to maintain a lean athletic figure is effortless.
As injuries such as the one suffered by Robert Griffin III show, in a business in which one is dependent on their ability to play at the highest athletic level possible , disability insurance is no longer simply an option but a necessity for the majority of players.
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