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From: The age-performance relationship in the general population and strategies to delay age related decline in performance

Fig. 1

Heterogeneity in individual trajectories in two contests. Performance is gathered in (A, C) the 100m. straight (physical contest) and (B, D) competitions of chess Grandmasters (cognitive contest). Each dot corresponds to a performance and each color corresponds to an individual. The black line is the average performance at each age. A total of 935 unique trajectories of elite athletes are plotted in (C), totaling 57,079 performances. Sources for performance data are detailed in [18]. A total of 1477 unique trajectories of Grandmasters are described in (D), totaling 138,015 performances. Grandmasters’ ratings are gathered from Jeff Sonas’ Chessmetrics website (http://www.chessmetrics.com). A random selection of 10 individual trajectories are presented in A and B

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Archives of Public Health

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