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A comment on 95%-ile isn't that good (2020). Parent comment
Compared to the best in the world, they were all still not very good. But on the metric of being able to make it to the Olympics, they were all geniuses.
And meanwhile, there's Steven Bradbury who 20 years ago, legitimately won a gold medal in short track speed skating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Bradbury
It seems to me that that "top" is often a nebulous term.
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Compared to the best in the world, they were all still not very good. But on the metric of being able to make it to the Olympics, they were all geniuses.
And meanwhile, there's Steven Bradbury who 20 years ago, legitimately won a gold medal in short track speed skating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Bradbury
It seems to me that that "top" is often a nebulous term.