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Owen Heard takes the win in the Men's Elite Pole Vault with a PB of 5.71m at Air Loughborough 👏
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Your new British Champion, Nemiah Munir 🎉
She takes the women's pole vault crown with a best jump of 4.21m 👏
#UKIndoorChamps
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🚨 This ⬇️ tragedy happened earlier this year and the family are now attempting to get back to some level of normality.
Please share wide and far if you can.
#athleticsfamily #polevault
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Observations on 4x100. Athletes are performers. Coaches are teachers. They are different jobs. You can't just take an athlete and make them a coach any more than you can take a coach out of the stands and put them on anchor leg.
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Doing everyone proud 🫶
Holly Bradshaw's journey over the past four Olympic Games has inspired us all 👏
#WhereItStarts | #Athletics | #Paris2024
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NEW NATIONAL RECORD ALERT 🚨
@MollyCaudery jumps 4.92m in Toulouse to overtake Holly Bradshaw's previous national record 🤩
She also takes the world lead and posts the seventh best jump of all time 🔥
#WhereItStarts
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Rule of thumb: Don't trust people who tie their identity, to the thing they are discussing/pushing.
Example: The "carnivore diet guy" will never change his mind.
Why? His success depends on being known as the carnivore diet guy. He's captured. Changing is near impossible.
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🗣️”What you have to do is understand the rhythm. What I want to tell everyone is please stop coaching from computers! The guy's start is fine, he’s running fast. Everyone told me if you fix your start you’ll run faster, but I won every meet. So why don’t they fix their finish? The guy is phenomenal. Stop coaching from computers and just celebrate a young guy who’s going to be great.”
Houston Head Coach Carl Lewis gives praise to Louie Hinchliffe after his amazing NCAA 100m Dash win in 9.95 seconds. Lewis also has a few choice words for everyone online 👀
🎥FULL INTERVIEW: youtu.be/7en3To0HnCg?si=Si5c…
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“Basketball is not the main thing in my life. And probably never gonna be.”
Who said that?
Nikola Jokic
Don't fall for the misguided notion that you must be completely obsessed to be the best.
You don't.
And that obsession often gets in the way and makes you perform worse.
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Many more kids have quit sports from over-controlling parents, than over-controlling parents helping their child become great.
We're fooled by a survivorship bias, recalling the handful of cases where it seemed to 'work.' Not seeing all the potential that was lost along the way.
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Older athletes often have success even if their physical gifts have waned slightly because they let go of the stuff that weighed them down.
They stop caring about
-the noisy voices of others
-chasing external validation
-trying to “prove” themselves
They perform out of joy
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Whenever I see stories like this, it makes me sad
Parents...chill out. Stop trying to live your athletic dreams through your kid
The best thing you can do for a 12 year old with sporting dreams...let them be on ateam with friends...and get out of the way
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"If you keep testing the cake to see if it is ready, it will collapse." Peter Thompson
Stop trying to prove your in shape or ready...trust your training. Trust yourself!
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A thread of all of the times I have tweeted about the automatic raising pole vault standards malfunctioning at major track meets.
This does not include all of the rants I made elsewhere on the internet, including my own message board, before Twitter existed.
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2024's version of super Saturday went down really well as @MollyCaudery wins the vault with 4.80m for Britains second gold in 33 minutes. Eliza McCartney silver on a great night for @Scott_Simpson_