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- Genes can be a
- big factor for
- the success of athletes.
- Thomas cleared it easily. So Mattis pushed the bar up to 6’8”. Thomas cleared it. Seven feet. Without a semblance of graceful high-jump technique. Thomas hardly arched his back and his legs flailed in the air like the streamers trailing a kite –he cleared it.”
- Hard work and
- In August 2007, with a total of eight months of legitimate high-jump training to his name, Thomas donned his pole vault shoes and the gold and aquamarine of his native Bahamas and traveled to Osaka for the World Championships.
- determination can allow athletes not born
- I can jump higher than you!
- “He placed fourth in a world-class field, a result that actually confused him because he did not yet understand how tiebreakers work in high jump and thought he was in third place until the results were announced.
- with certain genes to succeed in their sports as well.
- “The guy in pole vault shoes who thinks high jump is “kind of boring” was crowned the 2007 world champion. On his winning jump, Thomas raised his center of mass to 8’2”.
- Thomas’s, at ten and a quarter inches, was uncharacteristically long for an athlete his height. The longer (and stiffer) the Achilles tendon, the more elastic energy it can store when compressed. All the better to rocket the owner into the air.”
- But the tendons are one puzzle piece that helps explain how two athletes could arrive at essentially the same place, one after a twenty-year love affair with his craft, and the other with less than a year of serious practice after stumbling into it on a friendly bet.
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