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The dream of being able to identify sport talent in youngsters is heating up around the globe. Disappointing results in recent major Games has prompted Malaysia to begin testing all 7-year-olds in several performance aspects, and Sri Lanka recently announced a new ‘algorithm’ that can determine the best sport choices for a youngster based on… Read More »

How a country develops its national sport program has been one of my interests since the 1980s when I spent a few years coaching swimming in a small Southeast Asian country. The place did not have any kind of national swimming program so it only seemed natural to try to copy the U.S. model —… Read More »