Abbott World Marathon Majors’ Post

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The final races of the Canmore World Cup are in the books

Governance failure - they fail athletes, they fail aquatics sports, they fail swimming, they fail in the core mission of growing the sports they regulate - 6 weeks before an Olympics in a year that has already featured a half-baked World Championships ... such decisions make swimming smaller and more remote from any prospect of genuine growth... media, too, will keep moving away if championships are no longer championships but moments of compromise bypassed by many of the biggest title and podium shots ... beyond the ardent fan and those nations/athletes knowing they can make hay while the best are away and looking to capitalise or even try out their next wave, no-one cares about this event because it isn't the championships it should be. To grow a sport, you need to reach the wider audience that looks for a guarantee of quality (the very best should be there), meaningful competition that transpires best times and niche aims, that finds a regular place in a regular season, its traditional purpose untouchable. Make this a local gala or development meet and its game over!

Going from strength to strength...

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Counting the seconds...

Winning Olympic Gold with a punctured tyre is superhuman! Congratulations to Team GB’s Tom Pidcock, who defended and won the Olympic Gold in Cross-Country Mountain Biking in what I think could be the most spectacular gold in these Olympics. Pidcock went into the 8-lap, 4.4 km race with a commanding 30-second lead in lap 4, and only France’s Koretzky keeping up. Then he gets a puncture which in all cases means the race is over. Yet in this case an Olympic legend unfolds in the last 4 laps. Here is what happened and some great lessons I took away. Pidcock was leading the 4th lap with momentum and looking comfortable. Just before a technical drop, he stopped to avoid any risk, and it turned out to be a great call, as his front tyre was deflating fast and he could have hurt himself. This is my first lesson watching Tom: being totally in the moment and aware of everything around him. The level of presence to ‘feel’ his bike and make a split-second decision that would mean a race and an Olympic dream were over, was decision-making mastery. What happened next was nothing short of brilliant. Pidcock let his mechanics replace his front tyre while he stood there sipping fluids from a bottle like a cool cucumber. He was more relaxed than a retired couple having a stroll in the park on a sunny day. What I took away here is how not to stress about things not in our control, and make the most of what’s possible, and in his case, it was to let his body relax, take in all important fluids, and breathe a little. That was all he could do at that moment and he did it impressively well. Pidcock got on the saddle again in 9th place and 39 seconds behind the leader Koretzky. The 8 riders ahead of him were the best in the world, with Nino Schurter arguably the greatest of all time. But clearly, Pidcock was not thinking about it this way; he just picked the next 8 riders like they were 8 separate races. He only focused on the next step in his control, not all 8 at once. The next 3 laps were an amazing display of focus and discipline to just get to that next step like any good salesperson does in a long sales cycle. Incredibly, Pidccok regained the lead entering the 8th and last lap, with everyone guessing if he had anything left in the tank. Koretzky was leading without pressure for 3 laps, and as expected, his fresh legs allowed him to regain the lead and put a few meters between him and Pidcock, who was trying everything to catch up. Pidcock’s last brilliant move was pure genius. At one point, the trail split around a large tree. Pidccok timed this so well that both riders came out together and almost collided as they re-entered the single track again. The presence of mind to take this calculated risk and throw caution to the air, literally putting everything on the line and executing it precisely was just legendary. The rest was academic as Pidcock went into the last stretch and crossed the finish line in 1hr:26m:22s Congrats Tom and Team GB.

Delivering practice to coaches!

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