Vol. 2, Issue 2, Part G (2016)

Abstract
Talent identification and its development has become an important area of research in sports. In performance sports, due to rapidly increasing participation and performance density, only persons who have talent stand a chance of winning a medal in an international completion. Experience has also shown that talent alone is no guarantee for winning a medal. Talent has to be coupled with hard and rigorous training spread over several years. But it is talent which ultimately determines the maximum limit to which sports performance can be improved through training.