factory child

A child/kid who from a young age starts exercising a sport. The choice to start this sport is not coming from the adolescent but from the parents. The sport is not exercised as a hobby, but instead the child is treated as an investment. It gets trained until it reaches a high level (close to professional, but because of physical limitations not entirely). The kid is crowned a prodigy and hailed at by the masses. Although the child is now famous within the sport community and frequently wins competitions;

1. It has absolute no personality as a person
2. It has absolute no personality within the sport (not the passion of the child but rather of the parents)
3. It has zero academic schooling since it only practised the sport

The sole reason for his athletic skill was fulled by the ego of the parents that are living their ideal sports career through their child.

People often immediately start calling these children heaven sent, although any person who started training from a very young age (three to four years of age) could have reached that level.

Jeff: Wow did you see that new skating prodigy from Japan? He's so talented!

Paul: That's simply a factory child. Probably never had something else under his feet since he was born.

Jeff: Damn