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The subject of athlete psychological well being has grow to be the most important speaking level of those Olympics. How do high athletes handle the pressures on them to carry out, and do followers and media put an excessive amount of weight on wins and losses? On at the moment’s episode of The VeloNews Podcast we study this dialog.
We additionally break down the U.S. ladies’s Crew Pursuit, which rode to the bronze medal this week. It’s simply the second medal for Crew USA at these Olympics, and much fewer than the seven medals that USA Biking mentioned it was concentrating on this yr. We study this delta between Crew USA’s ambitions, and the fact of those video games.
Then, Olympians Amber Neben and Haley Batten be a part of the podcast to take us inside the ladies’s particular person time trial and cross-country mountain bike occasions. Neben was fifth place within the ITT, simply barely lacking out on a medal. She examines her journey and offers us some behind-the-scenes perspective on her expertise in Tokyo.
Batten completed ninth within the XC race, and shares some perspective on how she managed the exterior and inside pressures to carry out within the greatest race of her profession.
This week’s episode is delivered to you by Journey Texas, which reminds you that Texas is residence to a few of the finest bike racing and bike using within the U.S.
