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Originally Posted by Matata
An NHLers ability to perform is heavily reliant on the physical gifts they were born with. You can criticize a players skating ability all day, but their musculature and bone structure is going to put a hard limit on what they can achieve and it's perfectly acceptable to criticize either of those things. Micheal Phelps is the best swimmer of all time largely because every bit of his physique was highly conductive to being a swimmer, effort only gets you so far.
She voluntarily chose to build a career on her beauty, knowing that every aspect of her appearance would be evaluated and dissected. She's doing it at an extremely high level and is going to get a level of criticism appropriate to that level.
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I don't ever recall hearing any commentator in any professional sport criticizing any player's physical characteristics. Oh, except Jimmy The Greek. The criticism you do hear is almost entirely effort related, or mental preparation, or a simple lack of skill in an area. It's pretty much a given all pro athletes are incredibly gifted. The knock comes when the effort, skill or outcome doesn't match the "gift:". That's a lot different than what we're hearing about someone's mismatched Frankenstein bones.