It seems likely that Tsonga could have sickle cell trait rather than sickle cell disease, i.e. he carries one sickle cell gene rather than two. The trait is for the most part not a cause of symptoms, very much unlike sickle cell disease, though long flights can be problematic at times.
We're currently preparing to sell our house and have learned from real estate people how much the process has changed in the past 20 years. Those in their 30s are so intolerant of the need to do anything to a house once they've bought it that the agents are now reluctant to list anything that...
one month you post about how great it is to hang out with mobster (i.e. sociopath) friends, the next month you're complaining about lesser "sociopaths." Are we supposed to conclude here that you're such a highly moral person??
Cartoon in this week's The New Yorker:
(Paunchy older man is sitting on doctor's examining table with the doctor standing to his side)
cartoon reads "I just want to know if I'm healthy enough for bacon"
Huh?? Everything I've read about prostock frames indicates they in fact are usually relatively light when sold, the heft coming after they've had all the silicone, lead and whatever added to them post-market to bring them to the desired specs.
The OP's data analysis is incomplete and naïve. First, he fails to take notice that many of the rivalries he mentions went on for shorter periods of time than what we've seen with The Big Three, so age differences were less magnified by extremes of what stage of career the player was in. Lendl...
It indicates nothing whatsoever with any real clarity. With only three data points each five years it's not even clear that these differences would be statistically significant. If the differences are significant, it may say less about how the young are coached than it does about how the older...