Have you just found out, or might you be pregnant? Are you due in March? or does your son or daughter have a birthday on March 23rd?
If the answer’s “yes”, then the BBC News story ‘Want to give birth to an Olympian?’ might be of interest to you.
BBC News reports:
“Searching through the birthdays of the pantheon of British gold medallists shows the date [23 March] cropping up time and again.
It is a birthday shared by distance runner Mo Farah, cyclists Sir Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny and the rower Sir Steve Redgrave.
The first man to run a sub-four-minute mile, Roger Bannister, was also born on 23 March.
However, statistics can be deceptive. You need to put just 23 people in a room to have a 50-50 chance of a shared birthday.
And yet there are some suggestions that when you are born can have a big impact on later success” says the BBC News report.
Click here to see the full story on BBC News (this link will take you to an external website).
There’s also a very interesting bestselling book on the subject correlating your month of birth with how well you do in sport – in school and beyond. See Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, a US author (this link will take you to the Amazon.co.uk site).
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