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Message: [QUOTE="mrslong, post: 2769847, member: 1973"] I realised this morning that the media "putting too much pressure" on our athletes is NOT a valid reason for them losing. I stumbled across this [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tslYPALKWO0"]- YouTube<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tslYPALKWO0" target="_blank">[media=youtube]tslYPALKWO0[/media][/URL] It's a 4minute documentary about Cathy Freeman's run at the Sydney Olympics. If ever there was pressure on a person to win a race it was Cathy Freeman in 2000. She was the hot favourite, it was her home town, she had lit the Olympic cauldron ffs. All the press was talking about for the entire 2 weeks of events (and 4 years leading up to it) was this race. Like when we'd win a medal it was "Yay, Ian Thorpe has won a gold medal, but we all can't wait for Cathy's race because that's going to be the best gold medal of all time." They weren't wrong, it was the best gold medal of all time. She handled the pressure and she won. The reason we are losing is that our athletes don't get the same funding they got in the lead up to Sydney. They have to work day jobs, the powers that be also made poor choices in holding the swimming qual's in April etc......but it certainly wasn't because we wanted them to win too much. **** Side note: Cathy would have won the 400m this year with her time here too. What a freakin legend. [/QUOTE]

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