We shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss potential gymnasts with tall parents.
… Jason Ross is 6’5″, and a former athlete. He played college football and baseball in Hawaii, where he met his wife Kiana; that’s where they had Kyla.
“When she was born, we were like, ‘Oh my God, she has triceps, she has quads hanging off her. What the heck’s going on?,’ Ross said. “And she was just super strong. I mean, at an early age, she was able to walk across the monkey bars, just hanging herself.”
Baby Kyla’s musculature wasn’t the only striking thing about her. Her look reflects the multi-racialism of Hawaii. Her father is black and Japanese. Her mother is Filipina, white and Puerto Rican. …
SoCal gymnast Kyla Ross brings poise, nerves of steel to London Olympics
Hideo Mizoguchi speculates that many of the super athletes of the future will be multi-ethnic, unique combinations of genetic potential.
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By the way, for the first time women outnumber men on the U.S. Olympic Team.
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