Luck is when hard work meets opportunity.
But sometimes it takes more than just luck to achieve maximum athletic performance. In a sport like men's gymnastics, World Championship titles are determined by thousandths of a point. Even though it is a cliche, the basic fact is that few remember second place. An athlete is often driven to extreme regimes of diet and training to try to find that edge that will throw the extra thousandths of a point in his favor. As a result, there are many conflicting opinions about exactly how an athlete should prepare directly before competition.