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What’s the difference between Medicine and Sports Medicine?
I was recently asked to talk to a group of students about high performance sport. We discussed all the “usual” topics: talent identification, sports science, elite coach development and sports medicine.
One of the students asked me, “Is there a difference between Medicine (as in general practice medicine) and Sports Medicine as it exists in high performance sport”?
Here’s what I replied:
October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Olympic Games, Olympics, Performance Science, Rowing, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon
Message to the Sporting World - Do it your own way!
OK - the Olympics have finished.
Now comes the “GAMES”…………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.
“Our country didn’t win any medals at the Olympics” says the Minister for Sport.
“Country XYZ won lots of medals at the Olympics”, says the CEO of the Sports Commission.
“Therefore if we want medals and we copy them we will win medals”, thinks everyone in the room.
“Hooray!!!! Problem solved - let’s buy some air tickets”.
Seems like common sense.
Waste of time.
Waste of money.
Waste of energy.
If the past has taught us one thing it is that high performance systems, structures and models do not work outside of the culture that created them.
September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Gymnastics, Hockey, Judo, Olympics, Rowing, Sailing, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon
Beijing Blast Number Five: 10 things to include in your Beijing Review
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 “tick the box - we have to do a review” exercise.
How many athletes, coaches and support staff will actually use the review process as an opportunity to improve their performances in future major competitions?
How many will just see the review as a pointless waste of time enforced on them by the Funding Agencies or the Board?
So what are the 10 most important things to include in any Beijing review?
Reviews are critical in assessing three key things:
What did you do that WORKED - WENT WELL?
What did you do that didn’t WORK - WENT BADLY?
What did you learn and you can introduce to improve your performance NEXT TIME?
A good review asks questions - the trick is in knowing what questions to ask, why to ask them and who to ask.
Even more importantly, is knowing what to do with the answers to those questions.
August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Gymnastics, Hockey, Olympic Games, Olympics, Rowing, Sailing, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon
Beijing Blast Number Four: Beijing 2008 is already over - and London 2012 is closer than you think.
Well, let’s hope you enjoyed the spectacular Opening Ceremony because the Beijing 2008 Olympics is already over.
And London 2012 is closer than you think.
August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Rowing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon, Wrestling
Beijing Blast Number Three: Why the London 2012 Olympics will be Tougher to win than the Beijing 2008 Olympics
So you think winning Gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics is tough?
London 2012 will be much, much tougher.
Why?
August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Rowing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon, Wrestling
Beijing Blast Number Two - Top Five Reasons Olympic Athletes Take Drugs
They don’t call it Doping for nothing - because only DOPES do it.
With the overnight announcement of the IAAF banning of several of Russia’s leading female distance runners - including current and previous world champions - let’s have a look at the top five reasons why Olympic Athletes take drugs.
August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Rowing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon, Wrestling
Beijing Blast Number One - Five really dumb things most athletes heading to Beijing would have done in the past six months
Lots of athletes go to the Olympics - very, very few come back with a medal.
Why?
Lack of Talent? Unlikely.
Poor Skill? Possibly.
The wrong parents, i.e. Genetics? Could be.
But the reason most of them don’t win a medal is that they made five dumb mistakes in the past six months.
July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Beijing Olympic Games, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Rowing, Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon, Wrestling
Beijing Blast - the inside story of the 2008 Olympic Games
Welcome to the BEIJING BLAST.
For the next month, check out the great new posts about the issues and inspirations, medals and mayhem, records and ruin, controversies and criticisms, struggles and successes, fantastic feats and failures, trouble, tragedy, triumph, tears and turmoil that is the Olympic Games.
Forget the media blackout in China.
Hear it here - at the BEIJING BLAST.
Want the real inside story?
Read it here at the BEIJING BLAST.
Get with the BLAST - or hear about it………LAST!
Beijing Blast number one - coming soon.
Wayne Goldsmith
July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Gymnastics, Hockey, Olympics, Rowing, Swimming, Track and Field, Triathlon, Wrestling
Ten Tips for Keeping your Relationship Healthy when you work in High Performance Sport
The term “Sporting Widow” (or widower) is almost a cliche in high performance sport as many, many relationships have fallen apart in the industry due to the demands and pressures of travel, preparation, competition, training camps etc etc.
This article is for all my coaching, sports science, sports medicine and sports management colleagues (and their long suffering partners and families) written after many years chatting over beers and lamenting the challenges of working on the road, away from loved ones trying to balance success in high performance sport with a successful relationship.
June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Basketball, Coaching Tips, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, Netball, Olympics, Rugby, Rugby League, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon
