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Performance psychologist explains post-Olympic depression
NBC Sports Chicago2 hours agoMichael Gervais, performance psychologist and host of the Finding Mastery podcast, describes what post-Olympic depression is and why it’s a real things athletes can struggle with coming home from the international competition. Performance psychologist explains post-Olympic depression originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
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- 1:08Performance psychologist explains post-Olympic depressionNBC Sports ChicagoMichael Gervais, performance psychologist and host of the Finding Mastery podcast, describes what post-Olympic depression is and why it’s a real things athletes can struggle with coming home from the international competition. Performance psychologist explains post-Olympic depression originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago2 hours ago
- 1:25Coco Gauff to make Olympic debutWPTV- West Palm Beach ScrippsCoco Gauff will make her Olympic debut in the summer Olympic Games in Paris after missing the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics due to COVID.3 hours ago
- 2:30Race walker Robyn Stevens competing for second Olympic TeamKCRA - Sacramento VideosMaking an Olympic Team is never easy. Robyn Stevens fought an unwelcome opponent on her road to Paris. Robyn competed in the Tokyo Olympics as Team USA's lone female race walker. She finished 33rd out of 58 competitors in the 20km event.4 hours ago
- 23:42'Dying to Ask' podcast: Race Walker Robyn Stevens is back on track for Paris OlympicsKCRA - Sacramento VideosRobyn Stevens walks faster than most people run and is on track to make her second Olympic Team. Robyn is the fastest female race walker in the country. She grew up in Vacaville, CA. A high school track coach suggested she try race walking. She did and fell in love with the sport instantly.7 hours ago
- 14:45US Men's Olympic Gymnastic Trials presser [RAW]KMSPUSA Men's Gymnastic Program Director Brett McClure discusses the upcoming trial and Team USA's outlook for the Olympics.8 hours ago
- 2:58Japan eyes team gymnastics gold at Paris 2024Reuters VideosSTORY: With a month to go until the Paris Olympics, Japan’s men's gymnastics team is setting its sights on gold. Japan lost the team title as the host nation at 2021's Tokyo Games to the Russians by a hair - a mere 0.103 points. Russia, China and Japan are gymnastics powerhouses. With just one exception, one of the three has won every gold in men's gymnastics since the 1952 games in Helsinki. Three years later after the loss, the feeling still stings for all-around title holder Daiki Hashimoto, who spoke with Reuters after a team training session last week. "We had a bitter experience and missed the gold medal by the narrowest of margins, by 0.103. I want us to win that gold as a team, laugh and enjoy the view from the podium together." Hashimoto is currently nursing a finger injury that he said had him at 60 percent at last week’s training. "I don't think the pain will disappear completely, but what I can really do right now is practice and get treatment. If I can make it even a little bit better, I'll be able to get close to 100 percent, so I want to stay focused, and take good care of myself while I'm training." Japan’s five-man team is determined to beat their biggest rival, China, in Paris. Revenge may not taste as sweet, though, as Japan and China will battle it out without Russia, with the country banned from taking part in team events over the war in Ukraine. A victory by Japan would extend the record it holds to eight team golds, a feat the athletes say is attainable, thanks to a well-balanced team and a superior difficulty score, or “D-score,” which was likely to top China’s based on simulations of the teams’ routines on the six apparatuses. Led by Hashimoto, Japan took the World Championships title in October almost two points ahead of China – though the runners-up were without their ace all-rounder Zhang Boheng. With the 24-year-old added to the Olympic roster this time, China will be a formidable force. Japan’s head coach Hisashi Mizutori says Japan must be strategic, and will have little room for error. "It is important to not make any mistakes and create conditions where we could win in the end. In order to achieve that, we need to make sure we do well in the qualifying because if we are placed first in the qualifying, we will be able to perform in the last apparatus – horizontal bar – after our opponent. Therefore, it’s important for us to get in a good position and then head into the final from there." Artistic gymnastics will run at the Paris games from July 27 to August 5, with the men's team final on July 29.11 hours ago
- 4:32Paris Olympics committee takes heat for environmentally friendly changesABC News VideosABC News' Brad Mielke, host of the "Start Here" podcast, explains how Team USA plans to address the concerns.11 hours ago
- 1:30Alex Morgan Left Off USWNT Roster for Paris OlympicsCover MediaThe 2024 Paris Olympics roster for the U.S. women's soccer team was announced by coach Emma Hayes on June 26, CNN reports. Only eight players from the 2020 Olympics are included on the 22-player roster. Morgan, a women's soccer legend, was not one of them. She took to X to express her disappointment.12 hours ago
- 2:45Singer's Portrait Projected Onto French National Assembly Amid Olympics RowStoryfulA huge portrait of a French singer at the heart of a row over her invitation to perform at the Olympic Games in Paris was projected onto the facade of the National Assembly in Paris in the early hours of June 27. Footage of the stunt was recorded by photojournalist Nicolas Mercier, who told Storyful that portraits including that of the Mali-born popstar Aya Nakamura were projected by the activist group Banlieues Climat. The group wanted to “denounce the possibility of the extreme right coming to power,” Mercier told Storyful. President Emmanuel Macron’s suggestion to have Aya Nakamura perform at the Paris Olympic Games’ opening ceremony has sparked a backlash from the right in France. Marine Le Pen called it an attempt to "humiliate the French people.12 hours ago
- 2:37Why the Taylor Swift economy isn't realReuters VideosSTORY: :: Balazs Koranyi, Chief ECB correspondent "There has been a lot of hype about the massive benefits that the Taylor Swift concert tour will bring to Europe. But there's just one problem: 'Swiftonomics' is not real." "I decided to do a case study in Stockholm. Stockholm is one of the places where Taylor Swift has already come through. The concerts were in May. We already have some real numbers. And I thought Sweden would tell us if this benefit is actually there. And you know, there is a benefit. Something like 180,000 people attended her three concerts in Stockholm, and that generated about 850 million Swedish crowns of revenue, that would be about $81 million." "That sounds like a lot of money, but it's actually not. Even for a fairly small city like Stockholm, that's not a huge benefit. It's a good weekend for Stockholm. It's an OK-ish weekend for Sweden." "We looked at inflation as well. Sure, the tickets cost quite a bit. Hotel prices went up. But once you look at the whole country, and keep in mind Sweden is a small country, no impact at all. And there's of course also a darker side of the economic impact, which is that all the profits made by Swift incorporated get repatriated to the United States. So actually there's even a small drag for Europe because the money that is being generated in these concerts just get taken out of here. " "So then I thought, let's look at the broader picture, because surely it's not just concerts, we also have the Olympics coming up in Paris. We have Euro 2024, the European Football Championship, going on. Big mega events which are all supposed to generate huge benefits for the people of Europe. I spoke to a bunch of economists and the conclusions seem to be the same everywhere." :: Carsten Brzeski, Economist with ING "At local levels, there might be a positive impact from a Taylor Swift concert from other mega events, but when you look at the total economy, you really need to look through a magnifying glass in order to see a significant impact on economic activity and inflation." "To have a meaningful impact on an economy, what you would need is new money to be brought in, and in this case, it's not new money. It's people deciding how to spend their money." "People visiting a Taylor Swift concert or going to the Euro 24 or going to the Olympics, they will not be able to spend the money later on. So yes, there might be a very short lived, very brief positive economic impact, but over an entire year it is hardly measurable."15 hours ago