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351. Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete

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You Want Your Kid to Be a Fencer?

There are about forty six schools in the country that have a fencing team. The correlation between quality of school and having a fencing team is incredibly high. There's something like 300 thousand kids playing high school socker. But th the chance of having socker by your vehicle to get to college as opposed to fencing, turns out to be 75 or 80 times harder.

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