Supporting Champions

Episode #2 Panel Discussion (Part 2 of 3)   Steve Ingham, Jamie Pringle, Rosie Mayes, discuss the rise of Uk High Performance System that has gone from 36th on the medal table in 1996 Olympics to 2nd at the Rio Olympics in 2016, becoming a global sporting superpower.   This episode charts the necessary focus that came with the award of the home games, what challenges it brought and how the roles change under mounting pressure and resource. Show notes 4:01 July 6th 2005 London was awarded the Olympic Games Suddenly the bar has gone higher…we need more! Know what your role is. The fundamental difference between sport science in the academic sense and thinking about the performer and their performance The athletes don’t care who supplies the support, they want the support. The coach’s role is the distiller of language that the athlete can understand. 10:31 How has the education of the coaches developed and how has science been able to inform the coach? The athlete centred, coach managed network. How do you expla