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Allyson Felix on defeating disappointment and savoring success

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Advantage of Specializing Early On

There's some brand new evidence that world class athletes started their sport later, and they also were more likely to have sort of cross trained or sampled lots of different sports before they focused just on one. For me, starting in high school, everything was new to me, you know, i'm having so much fun. I would say that i probably seriously started training when i was college age. And so already then, i feel like the longevity that i've had is a lot attributed to starting later.

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