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fromPsychology Today
13 hours ago

Grit vs the Nervous System: Lindsey Vonn's Olympic Crash

Under extreme pressure, adaptive nervous-system constraints—not only courage or determination—shape performance and can limit physical outcomes like Lindsey Vonn's crash.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours ago

Quality sports coverage matters now more than ever

Human drama and technical risk in sport create compelling, emotionally resonant moments that often overshadow pure athletic performance and draw broad public attention.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The Joy of Six: stories of love in sport

The older I get, the more profoundly I appreciate that, when I'm writing about sport, I'm also writing about love. This makes perfect sense given these are mankind's two greatest inventions and the stuff we can least do without, but there's more to it than that: sport and love are both expressions of identity, creativity and devotion, pursued because they are right but also because it's impossible not to.
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