August 4, 2024 • 16 mins
On Sports Fix Paris 2024 Edition with Jason Pine for 5 August, it's a 100-metre final for the ages at Stade de France, with USA's Noah Lyles winning gold by an incredible five-thousandths of a second!
New Zealand kayakers Finn Butcher and Luuka Jones advance in the kayak cross and our kiwi sailors stay in medal contention off the coast of Marseilles.
And coaching guru Wayne Goldsmith joins Piney to explain how athletes can manage their emotions on the biggest sporting stage of all!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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The Triumphs, he.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Is an Olympic Champion.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The tragedy, Silver for New FID and all the Gold.
Your daily update from the Finnicle of sport. This is
Sports Fix Paris twenty twenty four edition, powered Blay News TALKSB.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hello and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast. Paris twenty
twenty four edition, Monday, the fifth of August. I'm Jason
Pine here to wrap day nine of action at the
Paris Olympic Games, and we start at Star de France,
the Olympic Stadium. Incredible scenes in the men's one hundred
meter final.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
They gone away first time and at what sluggers from
Noah Lyles down here at lane seven. But now he
gets into his work. Savilla's going well, Lars is going
well over and three though it's Thompson. They hit the
line and eight and Keith Shane Thompson.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I think got there?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Is it the Jamaican who is an Olympic champion? They
wait for confirmation on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's still to.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Come into photo finish across seven runners, but I'm almost
certain Keith Shane Thompson has won.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
This, but no.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The prophecy is fulfilled.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Noah's ark of domination reaches a new peak. The world
champion is now an Olympic champion, and Noah Liles there's
the one hundred meter Olympic champion.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I'll freely admit I didn't get it right the first time.
I thought that that Keith Shane Thompson had come home first,
but they were separated by just five thousands of a second,
and American Noah Lyles claiming the gold medal to go
with his one hundred meter world championship in one of
the all time great one hundred meter finals.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Game Fix, We've got just the ticket. It's Sports Fix,
Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
News Talk Sivy.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Let's go to the Kayak Cross where Kiwi's Luca Jones
and Finn Butcher were in the heats, needing to finish
in the top two to advance to the quarterfinals.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
First Van Butcher and Butcher navigating this course with a
plumb around the sixth downstream. Gaty goes across the rapids,
but he is well clear in first position. Finn Butcher
he's got one more upstream gate to negotiate, and he
does so without issue. Finn Butcher will cross in first
(02:47):
position and his advance through to the round of sixteen stage.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, very, very impressive from the game's debutante.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I looked on before gay five, after Gay four just
to make sure kind of when I was doing the
arpstream and two.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
After the roll zone two, I was I sort of
could see when you turn around that there was no
one else close, so the second place obviously split to
the other side, so it was good for me and
then I could get out in front and do my things,
so it was all good.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, great work from Fin Butcher through to the quarterfinals.
Luca Jones also won her heat to qualify for the quarterfinals.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I feel good.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
You know, it was a bit of a rough day
yesterday and it knocked me a little bit, but you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Know, I love this discipline.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
I feel confident and yeah, it was nice to execute
a good round.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So both kiwis threw to the quarterfinals exciting times in
the kayak cross to the sailing off the coast of Marseille.
Michael Wilkinson and Erica Dawson well in contention in the
mixed multi hull or the Nacro class. They had two
seconds and a third today to sit second after six
of twelve races. Tom Saunders is seventh overall after eight
(03:55):
of ten races in the men's dinghy. Greta Pilkington twenty
eighth after eight of ten races in the women's dinghy
and in kite falling, Lucas Walton Keem had a twelfth
and at eighteenth. He's fourteenth overall after four of sixteen races.
In the men's kite foiling, Justina Kitchen is fifteenth in
the women's after four of sixteen races.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Sports figs Paris, twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Four Editions American cyclist Kristin Faulkner has won the women's
road race of the New Zealander's Nave Fisher Black was best,
coming home thirty first, five minutes back after suffering mechanical
issues midway through a very tough race.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
I don't know if I've ever done a race that's
gone this fast and on narrow streets like this. You
have to be also thinking so fast and with the
crowds today, I've never experienced something like it. It's like
you have to be thinking so fast and so loud,
and yeah, it's high stimulus for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Kim Kadzo the other key, we was fifty six, eight
minutes and fifty one seconds adrift. Back to the track
and field. Lauren Bruce has missed out on qualification for
the top twelve final of the women's hammer throw. She
threw a best effort of sixty eight point nine to
three meters to finish twentieth.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I'm a little bit gutted. There's a few girls out
and I knew that like something seventy one would put
you through to the final, and I know that I
had it there. But I think it was nice to
go out and enjoy it because in Tokyo, I was like,
I don't know if I say this got shitting myself
out there like it was. I felt comfortable with this
argo and I know that I am able to be
(05:27):
competitive competitive with those girls. But I think my leading
to Paris just I didn't rarely get the chance to
work on the stuff that we needed to do and
have the time to do that. I had to keep competing.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Can we shoot a Chloe Tipple meantime, has finished twenty
eighth in the women's skeet shooting.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
This is Sports Fixed Paris twenty twenty four editions, You're
daily update from the Olympic Games. Howard By News Talks.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Envy Novak Djokovic is the Olympic Tennis champion and the
mean singles, earning a coveted Golden Slam in the process.
He's beaten Spanish player Carlos Alkrath and straight set, both
via tiebreaks.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Incredible battle, incredible fight. I mean, I honestly went.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
The last show but went through him, past them. You know,
that was the only moment I actually thought I can
win the match. Djokovic becomes the fifth player after Steffie
graff Andre Agassi, Rafinadal and Serena Williams to win the
four Majors and an Olympic gold medal. American Scottie Scheffler,
the world's number one golfer, has lived up to his reputation.
He's won gold in Paris, carting a blemish fore nine
(06:31):
hunder pass sixty two final round to rise from sixth
to first and win by one shot at nineteen hunder.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
It was just very emotional being up there on stage
there as the flag is being raised and the you know,
sitting there singing the national anthem and definitely one I'll
remember for a long time.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Off the kiwis, Ryan Fox finished tied for thirty fifth
and Daniel Hillier fifty fifth. There were two world records
on the last night of action at the swimming pool.
Bobby Fink of the USA swimming fourteen three to Oho
sixty seven to win gold in the fifteen hundred meter freestyle,
and the US four by one hundred meters women's medley
relay team came home in three forty nine six three
(07:09):
to claim gold in the very last event of the
swim meet, and those two goals meant that the US
pipped Australia in the pool eight golds to seven and
twenty eight swimming medals in all for the United.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
States Sportsfigs sara's twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The Olympic Games, as always, have provided some incredibly thrilling
moments of tension and excitement. The TV coverage is all
about slow motion video athletes screaming with joy or pain,
lots of shots of fans in the stands roaring with happiness, frustration,
or despair. The Olympics, for most people all about emotion.
But really that is for us the fans. How challenging though,
(07:49):
are pinnacle events for coaches and athletes as they manage
their way through the emotion of the moment. Coaching guru
Wayne Goldsmith has joined us on the podcast to discuss Wain.
You sent me a great line. If you don't control
the emotion of the moment, the emotion of the moment
will control you. So how do athletes and coaches beast
(08:10):
control the emotion of the moment.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Well, it's the same as everything, Pinty. It's practicing and rehearsing,
training in difficult and challenging situations and to expect that
that's the environment that you're heading into. And I think
there was a great line during the week talking to
one i'm a coaching buddies from the village during the
week he said, you know, the thing about the Olympics
(08:35):
is it's the Olympics. And what do you mean by that?
Was it's such a unique environment and it's all based
on let's get people excited, let's get the fans engaged
with watching, let's get more bytes on social media and
all that's driven by emotion. But then when you're standing
behind the blocks or when you're running out the play seven,
(08:56):
it's how do I manage my emotion because I don't
want to be excited, and I don't want to be stressed,
and I don't want to be angry, and I don't
want to be overthinking. I just want to do the
job that I've trained to do. I feel like it's
almost the opposite. It's at the opposite end of the spectrum.
It's those get the fans excited and the parents excited,
and there's schools excitedless, get everybody excited and pumped and
(09:19):
revved up. But for the athletes and coaches, it's completely
the opposite.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So it's really, I guess, preparing yourself for what you're
about to face. So in that regard, Wayne should training
and preparing for the Olympics be as hard, as stressful,
as challenging, if not more so than you expect the
event itself to be.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Look, it's an interesting discussion to have party because I
think a lot of people when you talk like this,
they misinterpret and say, oh, your meaning. We've got to be,
you know, ruthless and hard, like you know, the classic
coaches of the nineteen seventies, standing and yelling and screaming
and barking at people. That's not it at all. What
it is is saying, look, we're going to go into
(10:01):
an environment which is going to be mentally really difficult,
emotionally challenging, physically beyond anything that we're experienced in our lives.
We can't rely on wishing, hoping, prayer and luck. With
no disrespect to people with faith, well, we can't rely
on those things to get us across the line. So
what I find is people will go to national championships
(10:24):
in New Zealand and I say, look, we'll train about
ninety five percent, ninety eight percent of what we know
we're going to have to do when we get there,
and then when we get there, what I call the
sport fairy arrives and sprinkles ferry dust, and all of
a sudden, miraculously, magically, that extra two to five percent
will just appear as if sprinkled by faery dust. And
(10:46):
there is no Olympic fairy, There is no magical force
that turns up on the day and says, okay, you've
only prepared ninety eight percent of this environment you're going
to be given. You're going to find somehow these extra
two to five percent because you're a lucky person. We
don't rely on those as winning strategies. So, in effect,
(11:07):
and it was explain to me a long time ago
a very very good successful coach, he said, the majority
of people train at a level below the Olympic Games,
and then wish and hope and pray and light candles
and do all those things that they hope will give
them the answer they want. The one who win train
and prepare at one hundred and two percent. And these
(11:30):
figures are obviously just arbitrary, but to illustrate the point,
he said, they train at a level above that the
level they'll expect when they go into the games, and
in effect they drop into the games, they drop down
into the environment, and the experienced coaches and athletes get
it the first time. Is rarely understand that the.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Enormity of these events, says, you've said the Olympics. The
problem with the Olympics is that they're with the Olympics there.
They're a pinnacle for many of the athletes there. I'd
imagine that could be overwhelming but also motivational. Is there
any way to tippet in favor of the latter apart
from some of the stuff you've already talked about.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
That's that's a wonderful question. The the the God, I
don't know said the converse, the obverse, the reverse, I
don't do versus that. It's it's the opposite to that
is learning to manage. First of all, I can manage
negativity and frustration and anger and and expectation, all those things.
(12:29):
The other side is is to look at it and go,
this is my environment. I've trained for this environment. I
love this environment. I get excited about this environment, you know.
And I've met a lot of athletes over the years
who look at big competitions with dread pointing because it's like, oh,
you know, it's all on the line and it's going
(12:50):
to be tough. And they look and I've met she
asked as many, particularly the successful ones, and go, man,
I don't wait, let's go. Let's go. Let's get into
the Olympics, Let's get into the village. I want to
get into that environment for the I want to feel
the emotion. And some people thrive and feed off it.
They they drag the energy from the crowd particularly, and
(13:12):
they love it. And that comes down to preparation. I
know when I talk to kids and I say, have
you ever gone into an exam feeling really stressed and
really worried? And I say, yes, we have. Wayne, I'd say,
why were you stressed and worried? And I said, because
I didn't do enough study. And I said, right now,
take that into your sport. The main reason that you're
(13:33):
feeling stressed and you're not excited and invigorated by the
environment is you haven't done the preparation. Because I promise you,
if you walk into an environment and go, man, I
am ready, there's nothing I could have done better with
my eating, my sleeping, my training, my gym work, my hydration,
there's nothing I could do better. It becomes an exciting,
(13:55):
a wonderful moment. If you're walking in going oh, yeah,
I know, maybe I didn't do this and I didn't
come from that, and there's holes everywhere, then you quite
rightly get a little bit nervous and stressed and frustrate.
And that's when you've really got to have the management
tools to deal with those emotions.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Incredible insight, Wayne, Thanks so much. Indeed, Wayne Goldsmith coaching
guru there speaking about managing the emotion of the biggest
sporting occasion of.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
All sportsfigx Paris twenty twenty four edition Looking ahead to
Action Now.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
On Day ten of the Olympic Games were underway at
six in the mixed team's triathlon Relay. Now, there was
some doubt about this event getting underway because swimming practice
in the scene was canceled yesterday due to ongoing bacteria
levels in the river scene. However, we have had word
through that officials have decided that the Triathlon mix relay
(14:47):
is on and confirmed for a six pm start New
Zealand time. The track cycling program begins with the women's
team sprint chasing a medal and the men's four thousand
meter team pursuit as well. Luca Jones and Finn Butcher
in their quarterfinals and hopefully fingers cross semisen final in
the kayak cross at the Olympic Stadium. Connor Bell in
(15:09):
the men's disc is qualifying, while Eliza McCartney Imageneris and
Olivia McTaggart look to qualify for the women's pole vault final,
while Jordy Beamish has his three thousand meters steeple chase
heat in the evening session. So tomorrow morning, New Zealand
time more sailing for our dinghies and kite foilers. Speed
climbing features for the first time with kiw Sarah tetslaf
(15:31):
in the women's event, and Taylor Ford begins her sixty
eight kilogram wrestling campaign to the medal table. The United
States and China both finished the day with nineteen gold medals.
The US have the most overall, seventy one to China's
forty five. No medals overnight for New Zealand, but we
stay in fifteenth place two golds, four silvers, and a bronze.
(15:52):
Seventy nations now have won at least one Olympic medal.
Don't forget you can listen to live commentary of the
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most nights, but from six o'clock to night with the
early start for the Trithlon and right through the night
until nine in the morning. And I'll have a fresh
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at around about the same time tomorrow morning for you.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Is an Olympic Champion.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The tragedy, Silver for New FID and all the Gold.
Your daily update from the Finnicle of sport. This is
Sports Fix Paris twenty twenty four edition, powered Blay News TALKSB.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hello and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast. Paris twenty
twenty four edition, Monday, the fifth of August. I'm Jason
Pine here to wrap day nine of action at the
Paris Olympic Games, and we start at Star de France,
the Olympic Stadium. Incredible scenes in the men's one hundred
meter final.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
They gone away first time and at what sluggers from
Noah Lyles down here at lane seven. But now he
gets into his work. Savilla's going well, Lars is going
well over and three though it's Thompson. They hit the
line and eight and Keith Shane Thompson.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I think got there?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Is it the Jamaican who is an Olympic champion? They
wait for confirmation on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's still to.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Come into photo finish across seven runners, but I'm almost
certain Keith Shane Thompson has won.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
This, but no.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The prophecy is fulfilled.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Noah's ark of domination reaches a new peak. The world
champion is now an Olympic champion, and Noah Liles there's
the one hundred meter Olympic champion.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I'll freely admit I didn't get it right the first time.
I thought that that Keith Shane Thompson had come home first,
but they were separated by just five thousands of a second,
and American Noah Lyles claiming the gold medal to go
with his one hundred meter world championship in one of
the all time great one hundred meter finals.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Game Fix, We've got just the ticket. It's Sports Fix,
Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
News Talk Sivy.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Let's go to the Kayak Cross where Kiwi's Luca Jones
and Finn Butcher were in the heats, needing to finish
in the top two to advance to the quarterfinals.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
First Van Butcher and Butcher navigating this course with a
plumb around the sixth downstream. Gaty goes across the rapids,
but he is well clear in first position. Finn Butcher
he's got one more upstream gate to negotiate, and he
does so without issue. Finn Butcher will cross in first
(02:47):
position and his advance through to the round of sixteen stage.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, very, very impressive from the game's debutante.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I looked on before gay five, after Gay four just
to make sure kind of when I was doing the
arpstream and two.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
After the roll zone two, I was I sort of
could see when you turn around that there was no
one else close, so the second place obviously split to
the other side, so it was good for me and
then I could get out in front and do my things,
so it was all good.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, great work from Fin Butcher through to the quarterfinals.
Luca Jones also won her heat to qualify for the quarterfinals.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I feel good.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
You know, it was a bit of a rough day
yesterday and it knocked me a little bit, but you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Know, I love this discipline.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
I feel confident and yeah, it was nice to execute
a good round.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So both kiwis threw to the quarterfinals exciting times in
the kayak cross to the sailing off the coast of Marseille.
Michael Wilkinson and Erica Dawson well in contention in the
mixed multi hull or the Nacro class. They had two
seconds and a third today to sit second after six
of twelve races. Tom Saunders is seventh overall after eight
(03:55):
of ten races in the men's dinghy. Greta Pilkington twenty
eighth after eight of ten races in the women's dinghy
and in kite falling, Lucas Walton Keem had a twelfth
and at eighteenth. He's fourteenth overall after four of sixteen races.
In the men's kite foiling, Justina Kitchen is fifteenth in
the women's after four of sixteen races.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Sports figs Paris, twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Four Editions American cyclist Kristin Faulkner has won the women's
road race of the New Zealander's Nave Fisher Black was best,
coming home thirty first, five minutes back after suffering mechanical
issues midway through a very tough race.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
I don't know if I've ever done a race that's
gone this fast and on narrow streets like this. You
have to be also thinking so fast and with the
crowds today, I've never experienced something like it. It's like
you have to be thinking so fast and so loud,
and yeah, it's high stimulus for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Kim Kadzo the other key, we was fifty six, eight
minutes and fifty one seconds adrift. Back to the track
and field. Lauren Bruce has missed out on qualification for
the top twelve final of the women's hammer throw. She
threw a best effort of sixty eight point nine to
three meters to finish twentieth.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I'm a little bit gutted. There's a few girls out
and I knew that like something seventy one would put
you through to the final, and I know that I
had it there. But I think it was nice to
go out and enjoy it because in Tokyo, I was like,
I don't know if I say this got shitting myself
out there like it was. I felt comfortable with this
argo and I know that I am able to be
(05:27):
competitive competitive with those girls. But I think my leading
to Paris just I didn't rarely get the chance to
work on the stuff that we needed to do and
have the time to do that. I had to keep competing.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Can we shoot a Chloe Tipple meantime, has finished twenty
eighth in the women's skeet shooting.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
This is Sports Fixed Paris twenty twenty four editions, You're
daily update from the Olympic Games. Howard By News Talks.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Envy Novak Djokovic is the Olympic Tennis champion and the
mean singles, earning a coveted Golden Slam in the process.
He's beaten Spanish player Carlos Alkrath and straight set, both
via tiebreaks.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Incredible battle, incredible fight. I mean, I honestly went.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
The last show but went through him, past them. You know,
that was the only moment I actually thought I can
win the match. Djokovic becomes the fifth player after Steffie
graff Andre Agassi, Rafinadal and Serena Williams to win the
four Majors and an Olympic gold medal. American Scottie Scheffler,
the world's number one golfer, has lived up to his reputation.
He's won gold in Paris, carting a blemish fore nine
(06:31):
hunder pass sixty two final round to rise from sixth
to first and win by one shot at nineteen hunder.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
It was just very emotional being up there on stage
there as the flag is being raised and the you know,
sitting there singing the national anthem and definitely one I'll
remember for a long time.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Off the kiwis, Ryan Fox finished tied for thirty fifth
and Daniel Hillier fifty fifth. There were two world records
on the last night of action at the swimming pool.
Bobby Fink of the USA swimming fourteen three to Oho
sixty seven to win gold in the fifteen hundred meter freestyle,
and the US four by one hundred meters women's medley
relay team came home in three forty nine six three
(07:09):
to claim gold in the very last event of the
swim meet, and those two goals meant that the US
pipped Australia in the pool eight golds to seven and
twenty eight swimming medals in all for the United.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
States Sportsfigs sara's twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The Olympic Games, as always, have provided some incredibly thrilling
moments of tension and excitement. The TV coverage is all
about slow motion video athletes screaming with joy or pain,
lots of shots of fans in the stands roaring with happiness, frustration,
or despair. The Olympics, for most people all about emotion.
But really that is for us the fans. How challenging though,
(07:49):
are pinnacle events for coaches and athletes as they manage
their way through the emotion of the moment. Coaching guru
Wayne Goldsmith has joined us on the podcast to discuss Wain.
You sent me a great line. If you don't control
the emotion of the moment, the emotion of the moment
will control you. So how do athletes and coaches beast
(08:10):
control the emotion of the moment.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Well, it's the same as everything, Pinty. It's practicing and rehearsing,
training in difficult and challenging situations and to expect that
that's the environment that you're heading into. And I think
there was a great line during the week talking to
one i'm a coaching buddies from the village during the
week he said, you know, the thing about the Olympics
(08:35):
is it's the Olympics. And what do you mean by that?
Was it's such a unique environment and it's all based
on let's get people excited, let's get the fans engaged
with watching, let's get more bytes on social media and
all that's driven by emotion. But then when you're standing
behind the blocks or when you're running out the play seven,
(08:56):
it's how do I manage my emotion because I don't
want to be excited, and I don't want to be stressed,
and I don't want to be angry, and I don't
want to be overthinking. I just want to do the
job that I've trained to do. I feel like it's
almost the opposite. It's at the opposite end of the spectrum.
It's those get the fans excited and the parents excited,
and there's schools excitedless, get everybody excited and pumped and
(09:19):
revved up. But for the athletes and coaches, it's completely
the opposite.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So it's really, I guess, preparing yourself for what you're
about to face. So in that regard, Wayne should training
and preparing for the Olympics be as hard, as stressful,
as challenging, if not more so than you expect the
event itself to be.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Look, it's an interesting discussion to have party because I
think a lot of people when you talk like this,
they misinterpret and say, oh, your meaning. We've got to be,
you know, ruthless and hard, like you know, the classic
coaches of the nineteen seventies, standing and yelling and screaming
and barking at people. That's not it at all. What
it is is saying, look, we're going to go into
(10:01):
an environment which is going to be mentally really difficult,
emotionally challenging, physically beyond anything that we're experienced in our lives.
We can't rely on wishing, hoping, prayer and luck. With
no disrespect to people with faith, well, we can't rely
on those things to get us across the line. So
what I find is people will go to national championships
(10:24):
in New Zealand and I say, look, we'll train about
ninety five percent, ninety eight percent of what we know
we're going to have to do when we get there,
and then when we get there, what I call the
sport fairy arrives and sprinkles ferry dust, and all of
a sudden, miraculously, magically, that extra two to five percent
will just appear as if sprinkled by faery dust. And
(10:46):
there is no Olympic fairy, There is no magical force
that turns up on the day and says, okay, you've
only prepared ninety eight percent of this environment you're going
to be given. You're going to find somehow these extra
two to five percent because you're a lucky person. We
don't rely on those as winning strategies. So, in effect,
(11:07):
and it was explain to me a long time ago
a very very good successful coach, he said, the majority
of people train at a level below the Olympic Games,
and then wish and hope and pray and light candles
and do all those things that they hope will give
them the answer they want. The one who win train
and prepare at one hundred and two percent. And these
(11:30):
figures are obviously just arbitrary, but to illustrate the point,
he said, they train at a level above that the
level they'll expect when they go into the games, and
in effect they drop into the games, they drop down
into the environment, and the experienced coaches and athletes get
it the first time. Is rarely understand that the.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Enormity of these events, says, you've said the Olympics. The
problem with the Olympics is that they're with the Olympics there.
They're a pinnacle for many of the athletes there. I'd
imagine that could be overwhelming but also motivational. Is there
any way to tippet in favor of the latter apart
from some of the stuff you've already talked about.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
That's that's a wonderful question. The the the God, I
don't know said the converse, the obverse, the reverse, I
don't do versus that. It's it's the opposite to that
is learning to manage. First of all, I can manage
negativity and frustration and anger and and expectation, all those things.
(12:29):
The other side is is to look at it and go,
this is my environment. I've trained for this environment. I
love this environment. I get excited about this environment, you know.
And I've met a lot of athletes over the years
who look at big competitions with dread pointing because it's like, oh,
you know, it's all on the line and it's going
(12:50):
to be tough. And they look and I've met she
asked as many, particularly the successful ones, and go, man,
I don't wait, let's go. Let's go. Let's get into
the Olympics, Let's get into the village. I want to
get into that environment for the I want to feel
the emotion. And some people thrive and feed off it.
They they drag the energy from the crowd particularly, and
(13:12):
they love it. And that comes down to preparation. I
know when I talk to kids and I say, have
you ever gone into an exam feeling really stressed and
really worried? And I say, yes, we have. Wayne, I'd say,
why were you stressed and worried? And I said, because
I didn't do enough study. And I said, right now,
take that into your sport. The main reason that you're
(13:33):
feeling stressed and you're not excited and invigorated by the
environment is you haven't done the preparation. Because I promise you,
if you walk into an environment and go, man, I
am ready, there's nothing I could have done better with
my eating, my sleeping, my training, my gym work, my hydration,
there's nothing I could do better. It becomes an exciting,
(13:55):
a wonderful moment. If you're walking in going oh, yeah,
I know, maybe I didn't do this and I didn't
come from that, and there's holes everywhere, then you quite
rightly get a little bit nervous and stressed and frustrate.
And that's when you've really got to have the management
tools to deal with those emotions.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Incredible insight, Wayne, Thanks so much. Indeed, Wayne Goldsmith coaching
guru there speaking about managing the emotion of the biggest
sporting occasion of.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
All sportsfigx Paris twenty twenty four edition Looking ahead to
Action Now.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
On Day ten of the Olympic Games were underway at
six in the mixed team's triathlon Relay. Now, there was
some doubt about this event getting underway because swimming practice
in the scene was canceled yesterday due to ongoing bacteria
levels in the river scene. However, we have had word
through that officials have decided that the Triathlon mix relay
(14:47):
is on and confirmed for a six pm start New
Zealand time. The track cycling program begins with the women's
team sprint chasing a medal and the men's four thousand
meter team pursuit as well. Luca Jones and Finn Butcher
in their quarterfinals and hopefully fingers cross semisen final in
the kayak cross at the Olympic Stadium. Connor Bell in
(15:09):
the men's disc is qualifying, while Eliza McCartney Imageneris and
Olivia McTaggart look to qualify for the women's pole vault final,
while Jordy Beamish has his three thousand meters steeple chase
heat in the evening session. So tomorrow morning, New Zealand
time more sailing for our dinghies and kite foilers. Speed
climbing features for the first time with kiw Sarah tetslaf
(15:31):
in the women's event, and Taylor Ford begins her sixty
eight kilogram wrestling campaign to the medal table. The United
States and China both finished the day with nineteen gold medals.
The US have the most overall, seventy one to China's
forty five. No medals overnight for New Zealand, but we
stay in fifteenth place two golds, four silvers, and a bronze.
(15:52):
Seventy nations now have won at least one Olympic medal.
Don't forget you can listen to live commentary of the
Olympic Games on Gold Sport and iHeartRadio from seven o'clock
most nights, but from six o'clock to night with the
early start for the Trithlon and right through the night
until nine in the morning. And I'll have a fresh
episode of Sports Fox the Paris twenty twenty four edition
(16:15):
at around about the same time tomorrow morning for you.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Newth Talks EDB, official radio broadcast partner of the Olympic Games,
Paris twenty.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
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