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The Different Levels of Arousal
Some athletes require a certain level of arousal to be able to even compete normally. Andre de Grass, who had three Olympic medals when I was coaching him in 2016, required super high levels of arousal just to get any sort of intensity out of them. So if you have say a skill that isn't stable at a really low arousal level, then we're probably not going to put that athlete into an international competition and expect the skill to be stable.