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Handling Pressure as an Athlete
Elite athletes, including Olympians, despite their exceptional abilities, feel pressure and expectations like everyone else. They may find it overwhelming at times but have developed tools through experience to navigate it. Even the best of the best experience stress and nerves before big events. It is a human response triggered by our survival instincts that prioritize caution. The difference is elite athletes have more experience in handling pressure and have developed coping mechanisms over time.