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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Practice doesn’t always make perfect – that’s why you’re not in the Olympics Don’t put your faith in the 10,000-hour rule – some athletes are born with talents the rest of us will never have. The Guardian Olympics 21 July, 2024 | 928 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ Stefan Holm was told he was too short to be a high jumper. But by the time he won Sweden a gold medal in the 2004 Olympics, he had honed himself into the perfect projectile. It was the result of a 15-year obsession: his whole life had been pulled into alignment with this goal. If he wanted to stop on page 225 of a book, he would push himself to page 240, in order to train his mind to overshoot. “It’s all about your 10,000,” he told David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene. There had been jumpers who had beaten him when he was young, and where were they now? But in 2007, entering the world championships in Japan as the favourite, he faced an unknown op
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