... had an odd feeling that he could beat Parker's record, and he did. 1 He beat the record by seven seconds. After Gene told him the good news, Finny yelled, "My God! So I really did it. You know what? I thought I was going to do it. It felt as though I had that stopwatch in my head and I could hear myself going just a little bit faster than A. Hopkins Parker." 2 The fact that Finny could beat the record with no training and little or no effort is amazing. An athlete gifted with that ability is truly gifted. A2 Finny was also great at blitzball; not only did he invent the game, but he was also athletically gifted at it. Blitzball focused on Finny's own athletic abilities. Not one boy at Devon high school could beat him, because he was the best. Like Gene said, "It ...

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