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2022 REVIEW: From Outrageous Cheats to Deciding The World's Greatest Ever Footballer

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Is There More Social Media Training for Top Athletes?

I'm always amazed that there isn't more social media training for those top athletes. There are some brilliant talkers you know, Jake whiteman who won the 1500 meter gold medal is an absolutely superb talk a lovely guy. But an awful lot of them for media training they seem to have been taught say nothing and actually the best of them do say something always. I go through Greg Rutherford's 2012 Olympic long jump champions book, and he would always have something to say,. He'd happily chat about the Russian doping he'd happily discuss his own Federation. It was just him as a person but you know I think athletes should give more themselves when actually a lot of the time they just talked to

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