Amby Burfoot at RW looks at the latest SI article, here:
http://peakperformance.runnersworld.com/2010/05/may-22-sports-illustrated-updates-the-genetics-of-sports-story-with-latest-findings.html
Looks like even the response to training is genetically determined to some extent… but of course,
“Currently, they believe that many genes are involved in these outcomes, and the ways that key candidate genes interact with each other and the environment are very difficult to tease out.”
more to the point,
“Each athlete is an experiment of one, sports are good for all of us, some of us might be more motivated to practice than others, and the only way to find out how good each of us can be is to cross our fingers and train.”
“The best genetic test right now is a stopwatch.”