{"id":57,"date":"2009-04-13T13:47:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T21:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/?p=57"},"modified":"2009-04-16T12:49:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:49:52","slug":"how-athletes-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/2009\/04\/13\/how-athletes-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"How athletes excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"276\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4138395&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"276\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4138395&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Owning the podium in sports means that athletes must work long and hard to perfect their skills. While it is assumed that achieving athletic greatness involves tireless hours of training and exercising both in and out of the gym, taking home that number one spot may, in the end, be the result of the &#8220;gifts&#8221; that your parents give you at birth &#8211; your genes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Genetic Signposts\" href=\"https:\/\/genographic.nationalgeographic.com\/genographic\/lan\/en\/signposts.html\">genetic \u201cgifts\u201d<\/a>\u00a0our parents gave us at birth may play a part in the way our body responds to training and exercise. \u00a0Scientists believe that the combination of psychological traits, the body\u2019s physical characteristics, and the number of years participating in a sport are all part of the package of being an elite athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Watch as some of the men from the Canadian National <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freestyleski.ca\/en\/freestyle\/disciplines.htm\">aerialist<\/a> team discuss the key components to being an elite athlete, their training regiments, and how they plan to succeed in winning gold in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/en\/-\/32678\/q0c15c\/index.html\">2010 Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owning the podium in sports means that athletes must work long and hard to perfect their skills. While it is assumed that achieving athletic greatness involves tireless hours of training and exercising both in and out of the gym, taking home that number one spot may, in the end, be the result of the &#8220;gifts&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3355],"tags":[3369,68,3356,37,3368],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gene-doping","tag-athletes","tag-canada","tag-doping","tag-ubc","tag-winter-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geneticsinsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}