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Paul Rouse: Do we misunderstand what makes a sporting genius? 

There are few areas of the modern world where words proclaiming someone’s abilities are as misused as in sport.
Paul Rouse: Do we misunderstand what makes a sporting genius? 

SPORTING GENIUS: Is Peter Canavan one of the sporting genuis' of our time. Picture: Damien Eagers / SPORTSFILE 

Genius: Innate intellectual or creative power of an exceptional or exalted type, such as is attributed to those people considered greatest in any area of art, science, etc.; instinctive and extraordinary capacity for imaginative creation, original thought, invention, or discovery 

- Oxford English Dictionary 

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