I guess you could then infer my comment to mean that they were the type of person who wouldn’t be able to achieve such a goal, even with your conditions.

Certainly I wouldn’t be the sort to write such a comment!

BTW IIRC, the Death Note can only control people’s actions for a limited time. Something like 20 or 24 days.

For some unknowable reason, I am reminded of this exchange in an X-Files episode about a psychic who could supposedly predict people’s deaths.

Psychic: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can’t think of a more undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation.

Mulder: Why are you telling me that?

The Death Note doesn’t control the actions of anybody except the people named in the note, and if the condition cannot be fulfilled then they simply die of a heart attack.

So you’d have to be a truly terrible person to make that one happen.

It’s not just sports. It can also be intellectual pursuits.

Look at the kids who are in the top tier spelling bee competitions, and then look at their parents, and tell me whose dreams are coming true.

Same thing for a lot of child prodigies. A lot of child prodigies suddenly become less “prodigious” the moment they move away from their parents.

Same goes for so many different things. Child beauty pageants are another famous example.

Obviously this doesn’t mean all of the kids who do these activities are being pushed by their parents. Some of them are self motivated. Some are not.