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A reporter spends a year searching for the athletic holy grail: a sports gene

Updated: October 8, 2009, 4:28 PM ET
By Shaun Assael | ESPN The Magazine

This article appears in the October 19th Body Issue of ESPN The Magazine.

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Shaun Assael | email

• Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine
• Author of "Wide Open: Days and Nights on the NASCAR Tour"; the New York Times best-selling "Sex, Lies and Headlocks"; and "Steroid Nation"

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