Elite athletes should be cloned for breeding stock

I'm not talking about the flash-in-the-pan hot-shot who retires after five good years. I'm talking about the top-shelf athletes who are still bringing it in their forties. Folks like Vince Carter or Serena or Federer. And here's why we need them for breeding stock. Mother Nature, in the great experiment of human evolution, designed this mortal coil to last just long enough to successfully and sustainably fulfill the imperative of species survival. That needn't be more than twenty-five years. After that, our physical infrastructure begins to deteriorate, slow in some, quicker in others. The point is, folks who are playing elite level sports into their fourties have the genetic potential to carry our species far into the future. Finding people who can contribute desirable brain genetics to our species will be more problematic.