UK Sport could not say if a majority of the 1,300 athletes it gives money to were born in November and October. Natalie Dunman, its head of performance, said that the differences shown in the new study were true for teenagers in junior-level competitions, but that the differences disappear before athletes were in adult competitions. She said: “With adult athletes, there are many factors that make a champion and we don’t think that month of birth is one of the key ingredients.”
What does Natalie Dunman note is a limitation to the study?
It did not investigate if the differences in teenagers persisted to adulthood The teenagers in the study did not take part in junior-level competitions It examined too many unimportant factors in determining what makes a champion athlete It had too small a sample size