Exam LSAT Section 1 Logical Reasoning topic 1 question 342 discussion

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Question #: 342
Topic #: 1

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Juan: Unlike the ancient Olympic games on which they are based, the modern Olympics include professional as well as amateur athletes. But since amateurs rarely have the financial or material resources available to professionals, it is unlikely that the amateurs will ever offer a serious challenge to professionals in those
Olympic events in which amateurs compete against professionals. Hence, the presence of professional athletes violates the spirit of fairness essential to the games.
Michiko: But the idea of the modern Olympics is to how case the world's finest athletes, regardless of their backgrounds or resources. Hence, professionals should be allowed to compete.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously undermines Juan's argument?

A. In general, amateur athletes tend to outnumber professional athletes in the modern Olympics.
B. In certain events in the modern Olympics the best few competitors are amateurs; in certain other events the best few competitors are professionals.
C. The concept of "amateur" and "professional"athletics would have been unfamiliar to the ancient Greeks on whose games the modern Olympics are based.
D. In the modern Olympics there has been no noticeable correlation between the financial or material resources expended on the training of individual athletes and the eventual performance of those athletes.
E. Many amateur athletes who take part in international competitions receive no financial or material support from the governments of the countries that the amateurs represent.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️
D. directly severs the link between training resources and Olympic performance in the modern era. As a result, Juans pessimism that Olympic amateurs can never seriously challenge pros because of the latters material advantages is highly unjustified. If A. is true, then the pros may still have an edge over the amateurs, but not for the reason that Juan proposes.

by [deleted] at March 9, 2025, 1:44 p.m.

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