Is talent or hard work more important to making it as a professional sportsperson?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts A friend asked me last week: "If you could start over at five years old and try to make it as a footballer, could you do it?" My immediate response was: "Definitely not." But how much is athletic or sporting success down to talent and how much is it the result of hard work? Sam Feeney, Stockholm Post your answers (and new que...