Sport: in the minds of champions
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Teddy Riner during training with the French judokas qualified for the Olympics, in Paris, June 22, 2021 THOMAS COEX AFP / Archives
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 mins
After a one-year postponement due to the health crisis, the 2020 Summer Olympics finally started this weekend in Tokyo with already their share of medals, victories, and failures.
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A meeting awaited by the athletes, broadcast in more than a hundred countries, they will be millions of spectators to follow the performances of their champions.
Raised to the skies, adored for their victories or their exploits, the slightest defeat or poor performance can make them fall out of favor.
How to prepare mentally to be ready on D-Day to experience such emotions?
What goes on in the mind of a top athlete 5 minutes before the start of a match or the start of a race?
How can we ignore the expectations of supporters and the media?
With :
Virginie Troussier
, writer and journalist, author of
Our champions - body and soul (Editions Les Pérégrines)
Julie Doron
, researcher in psychology at the "Motricity, Interactions, Performance" laboratory of the
University of Nantes
and former top athlete in fencing.
Directed the book "Corps & sport" (La Martinière Edition)
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Shekere
- Yemi Alade and Angélique Kidjo
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Paradise
- Orelsan
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