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AMAZING GRACE- CATHY FREEMAN

Article added October 12, 2020 Categories Featured Columns, Motivation
Written By: KATE CARTER

Why Cathy Freeman’s 400m Gold at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was a performance of enormous symbolic power Few moments epitomise grace under pressure so elegantly as the Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman in her sleek green, white and yellow bodysuit surging to 400m Olympic Gold in front of an adoring home crowd. Few athletes […]

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The Psychology Behind Why We Still Can’t Get Enough of Usain Bolt

Article added September 23, 2020 Categories Featured Columns, Motivation
Written By: ELIZABETH MILLARD

And Deena Kastor. And Tatyana McFadden. And every other individual athlete, as opposed to a team. According to a recent study published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, there’s a reason why we tend to cheer for one person instead of a team. Researchers found that people were more invested in the success of one athlete—in this […]

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Aging Doesn’t Slow Your Running Down That Much

Article added September 9, 2020 Categories Featured Columns, Human Race
Written By: HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK

Research suggests that our fitness declines much more gradually than we thought. As runners hit age 40 and older, their speed and race times naturally start to slow. However, this decline is gradual—between ages 40 and 70, runners slowed by a rate of about 1 percent each year; runners in their 70s began to decline by about […]

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Joshua Cheptegei Is Pursuing Greatness

Article added August 25, 2020 Categories Featured News, Motivation, News
Written By: ANDREW DAWSON

Will We See the Newest World Record on Strava? A Q&A With Joshua Cheptegei We all saw Cheptegei stop his watch at the finish of his world-record 5,000 meters. Time to give him some kudos? Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei broke his fourth world record at the age of 23. In a year turned upside-down by the coronavirus pandemic, […]

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