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In Sea of Similar Body Types, Nonconformists Can Succeed

The success of Olympic athletes whose bodies are seemingly unsuited to the sports in which they excel challenges the expectations of exercise science.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/sports/olympics/20bodies.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0dc00cc08bb342eab9df15139a21258c&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/sports/olympics/20bodies.html" border="0"/></a></span>