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Originally posted by ChrisSportsFan
I know this isn't much of a basketball officials topic but I think he could lose his front tire and still finish in first doing a wheelie all the way. He is inspiring. I was recently talking to a friend who was trying to explain to me how Lance has enlarged passages that allow more oxygen to his lungs or heart (one or the other) and we were discussing the tremendous advantage that gives him. Now here's my attemp to turn this back to the basketball topic; does anyone know about his situation or heard of other athletes or officials with a similar condition and how it benifits them?
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All great (and most "average") athletes have some physical condition that's different from us mere mortals. Shaq is really tall. Randy Johnson can throw the ball 100mph. etc.
Now, to be clear, the great athletes work at maximizing the talents / physical abilities they were given, and just having some physical "abnormality" doesn't make for a great athlete (there are plenty of tall guys who aren't in the NBA).