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Elite athletes don't have better basic eyesight than amateurs, but superior dynamic visual-motor skills

Top athletes do not have sharper eyesight than athletes who compete at lower levels. Their advantage lies in visual skills that have to work at speed. A study of 598 athletes, led by researchers at the Second Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, found that professionals outperformed nonprofessionals on 6 of 10 visual-motor measures, including depth perception, reaction time and…

Elite athletes don't have better basic eyesight than amateurs, but superior dynamic visual-motor skills

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