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Ian Thorpe: How I became Australia's most successful Olympian (E71)

The High Performance Podcast

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The Importance of Focusing on Mental Health

I did a talk at a football club recently and it was to the parents of the children who were the latest to be given contracts in the academy. I could see some of these parents thinking, hold on a minute, my son is the happiest he's ever been. He's just been offered a professional contract or an academy contract, a Premier League football club. Exactly. And if they're happy, they're going to come back and do it again. If they're living with all of those 11, 12, 13 years of age and their career doesn't go the way they want it to - that can derail you. It's still those things that got you there in the first place

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