re: What sport is easiest to excel in?

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But to become an elite runner, you're competing in a huge pool, and statistically it probably becomes one of the hardest to excel at.

Any sport where people can reasonably play without a lot of obstacles (size, equipment, location) is going to be very hard to be elite obviously, simply because you'll be competing with so many people. It's why it's threading a needle to play basketball in the US - every one of us knew some kid who was a great ball handler or could shoot lights out in pickup games but couldn't sniff a HS team because of the competition/size/etc. components. It's just too big a pool. Whereas if you're 6'3 225 at 16, they're going to find a role for you on a varsity FB team unless you're just completely unathletic.

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I guess that's true too. It depends what OP means by "easiest" too. Anyone can train to be a distance runner and get pretty good at it. You can't train to be 6'6