Discuss the issue that a sport elite performer of your choice has inherited the characteristics needed to excel in his/her sport with a nurturing environment to support him/her?

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Discuss the issue that a sport elite performer of your

choice has inherited the characteristics needed to excel

in his/her sport with a nurturing environment

to support him/her?

To become an elite performer you need a combination of nature and nurture. Nature is the abilities you are born with, these are physical, bio-mechanical and mental and controlled by your genes i.e. muscle structure.  To a certain extent you can change these attributes. We develop these through training and performing. Nurture is how you develop these natural aspects. We can develop them in a number of ways parental nurture, facilities, schools and coaching.

Roger Black is good example of a lot of natural ability and very little nurturing required for him to become an elite athlete. Under his first coach he was told just to run. But when he changed coaches his new coach tried to make the race more technical and change his running style. Black then started to run slower times. But there are cases where countries have developed sports people who do not have all these natural abilities i.e. China and their gymnasts. Rather than picking them ones that take the sport up and are good at it China pick up very young children and train them very hard until they become elite athletes. The combination is different for everyone.

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The person I am going to look at is David Beckham who currently plays for Real Madrid in Spain. David inherited from his parents most of the abilities required to become a top athlete. He inherited focus, determination and the will to win which he has showed many times for both club and country. For instance when he drove England forward and on to victory against Macedonia he showed all these abilities and more because when England were in trouble and behind he wanted the ball and raised the confidence of the rest of the players. He also inherited ...

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