Name: 【TEDx】Sport psychology - inside the mind of champion athletes: Martin Hagger at TEDxPerth
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there are clearly some athletes  who always seem to get it right.

in the 2008 Beijing Olympics  and in the London Olympics.

Michael Phelps: the most bemedaled Olympian of all time.

These are athletes  who clearly get it right,

both psychologically  and physiologically all of the time.

It is also interesting to note that  they have contrasting approaches.

prior to his event,  when he is on the start line.

Michael Phelps,  however, a much different approach.

he has much more  cerebral, contemplative approach

Sport psychology may play a part in their preparation for their events,

and maybe a reason  why they're successful.

In the 2012 Olympics in London in the soccer final,

there were two finalists,  Brazil and Mexico.

They were the reigning Olympic champions.

Mexico had made it to the final playing well,

in an incredible display of attacking football.

And if you watched  the Brazilian players,

why they were not performing  quite as well as they were.

they were the Olympic champions over the fancy favorites.

Perhaps sport psychology  can explain why fancied champions

and may fail when they're expected to win,

and perhaps why underdogs take on the best

a man with seemingly  unshakable self-confidence.

He said he was going to win  the 100m-sprint final in the pool

he was out-touched in the line by Nathan Adrian,

you could see his body language after, he was destroyed.

in the events leading up  to the actual final.

Perhaps his confidence belied an undelying self low confidence.

Perhaps he was not  very confident inside

when he should have been supremely confident of his abilities

because he was the world leader in the event.

So perhaps psychology  may have played a part,

when overcoming such a devastating defeat for the next event.

In the 2011 Augusta masters,  he was expected to win,

In fact, he is the one player that all the people on the tour,

all the golfers on the tour, the PGA tour,

when he was leading, on the final day of the event

He'd played superbly on the previous three days.

He experienced  a catastrophic drop in his performance.

and this is something  that professional golfers

can do in their sleep, certainly very easily,

because they frequently shoot rounds of 70 or below

and he ended up tying for fifteenth place.

So you'd think that  that sort of devastating performance

However, only eight weeks later, he won the U.S open,

and there was no sign  of the lack of confidence

and the fact that the pressure  had got to him,

that was displayed  when he was in Augusta.

So it seemed that he picked up the pieces.

Sport psychology  may indeed have the answers.

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