the same is (8) in sports. A person has to start young to learn well the complex coordination of the hundreds of muscles needed to play tennis, swim, or figure skate. Most champions begin training at an early age. Some successful competitors entered their sport after childhood, but they are the exception, not the rule. The same is true of adults who acquire native-like accents in a foreign language. But, taken together, advantages seem to offset the disadvantages of age. By You can indeed