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		<title>Gold Medal Parents: Little League Players need Big League Parenting!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Goldsmith</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So you believe your child will be the next big thing in the Big Leagues?
So you think it is inevitable that your son will win an Olympic Gold Medal one day?
So you are a 100% certain that your little girl will be the next Nadia Commenici?
Gold Medal kids need Gold Medal parents.
Little Leaguers who aspire to [...]<br/>
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		<title>Talent Identification in the Western World - Over funded and Over rated.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Goldsmith</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The concept of Talent Identification - TID for short - makes sense.
Do some standardised testing and screening of lots of kids, find the ones who can run faster, run further, jump longer, stretch better than the rest and bingo- you found talent!
It all grew out of the now &#8221;mythical&#8221; talent identification systems of the old Eastern Block (and more [...]<br/>
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		<title>What’s the difference between Medicine and Sports Medicine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Goldsmith</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was recently asked to talk to a group of students about high performance sport. We discussed all the &#8220;usual&#8221; topics: talent identification, sports science, elite coach development and sports medicine.
One of the students asked me, &#8220;Is there a difference between Medicine (as in general practice medicine) and Sports Medicine as it exists in high [...]<br/>
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		<title>Not another Academy of Sport…..aaaaargh!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Goldsmith</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Academy of Sport?
Institute of Sport?
Elite Sports Academy?
Centre of Excellence?
High Performance Centre?

Call it what you will - it&#8217;s the same thing.
Why this world wide obsession with Academies / Institutes and Centres?
And more importantly, do they actually make a difference to the performance of elite athletes?
Sports Academies are like a DVD player: everyone&#8217;s got one but no...<br/>
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		<title>Coach driven, Athlete Focused, Administratively supported? Isn’t it time we did something different?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Goldsmith</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Thanks for visiting the Brain today while doing your daily web surfing.
While you are in the surfing mood, go and check out some other sporting web sites.
Specifically check out the web sites of the funding agenices, Institutes and Academies of the major Olympics sporting nations.
You will see something like this - on ALL sites:
&#8220;Our philosophy is to embrace an athlete centred, [...]<br/>
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		<title>Bye Bye Bompa, Bompa Bye Bye….the death of periodisation.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Goldsmith</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[First let me say I have total, 100% complete admiration and respect for Bompa himself - a true pioneer of the sports coaching and the sports performance industry. This article is in no way a criticism of him personally but rather a proclamation that PERIODISATION as a concept is now officially dead and buried.
Periodization - that is, the [...]<br/>
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		<title>Message to the Sporting World - Do it your own way!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Goldsmith</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK - the Olympics have finished.
Now comes the &#8220;GAMES&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;the junkets and fact finding missions the Sporting leaders from most countries are about to embark on to find out what the USA, Germany, Great Britain, South Korea, China and Australia are doing to be successful in the Olympics.
The logic seems simple enough.
&#8220;Our country didn&#8217;t win any...<br/>
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		<title>Beijing Blast Number Five: 10 things to include in your Beijing Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Goldsmith</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So Beijing 2008 is over.
Now is the time to start planning to win in London 2012.
Or World Championships 2009.
Or Commonwealth Games 2010.
Or the next World Cup.
All sports in all nations will do some sort of Beijing Performance Review in coming months.
Some will do it well - many will just do it as a &#8220;tick the box - we have [...]<br/>
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		<title>Athletics in Australia - Time to Say what Everyone else is Thinking.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Goldsmith</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Athletics in Australia is a joke.
Everyone knows it.
Everyone - outside of the sport - thinks it.
Time to say what everyone else is thinking.
 
Let&#8217;s look at the facts.
In Australia, Athletics is about the best funded, most politically protected Olympic sport there is.
Yet, time after time, at Olympic and World Championship level, the sport has failed to deliver. Sure we [...]<br/>
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		<title>Beijing Blast Number Four: Beijing 2008 is already over - and London 2012 is closer than you think.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, let&#8217;s hope you enjoyed the spectacular Opening Ceremony because the Beijing 2008 Olympics is already over.
And London 2012 is closer than you think.
It takes a long time to develop a world class athlete.
Four years is not nearly enough time.
That&#8217;s because what&#8217;s required is so much more than the physical skills, fitness, strength, speed, power, agility and...<br/>
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