Based on this excerpt, do you think the author is
favoring Donald Thomas's approach to the high
jump over Stefan Holm's technique, or favoring
Holm over Thomas? Or is he not taking sides?
Support your response with details from the text.
Answers
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The Author did not take sides with either athlete but showed the advantages and disadvantages that each one head .
Explanation:-
This question is about the book "The sports Gene " where the author shows how Donald Thomas won a world high jump Championship against veteran Stephen Holm.
The author shows how the two atleast have advantages and disadvantages in relation to each other without taking sides of a layer on the contrary the author shows why both were able to win and how the sport is something dynamic and unexpected .
The author shows that Holm had a great experience in high jump because he trained for this port for years in addition he was smaller than Thomas and had no experience in details that make all the difference in this sport however he was more older than Thomas and that was a big disadvantage .
Thomas , on the other hand had little experience in high jump which was a disadvantage but he was already a trained athletic he played basketball and therefore he had been trained on how to jump how to control his body in a among other things in addition Thomas was already training for this type of Jump 2 years before the Championship which shows that he was an athlete capable of winning the Championship like any other .
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Answer:no
Explanation: