Hyperbole often is. If you would prefer facts and figures, you could analyse academic achievement across top-tier sportsmen, and perform similar analysis of the sporting achievements gained by top-tier scientists, comparing both with a control group of average Joes. I would certainly be interested in reading your Powerpoint presentation on the subject.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:08, 2 replies)

I'll work on it while I'm playing Tennis tonight.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:16, closed)

Anyway, to disprove your point,
if intelligence and sporting prowess are so rarely found in the same people, how come only the two best Universities in the country ever get to the final of The Boat Race, huh smarty pants?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:17, closed)

It's a result of early streaming.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:28, closed)

Yes, but...
they are often joint last at the Violence World Championships.
(Mr Fudge It shouldn't be illegal to have sex with an eagle, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:30, closed)

Because
Oxbridge let in professional rowers to do a Masters in "Land Economy" and then just use them for the boat race. Duh.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:50, closed)

Yet 1 guy out for his constitutional swim
manages to stop 'em dead.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 23 Apr 2012, 21:49, closed)