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The
Recovery
Room
the race
the race
to get
to get
ready!
ready!
Being an Olympian means getting the Double Commonwealth gold medallist and
balance right to peak in time and not get national 200m sprint champion, Jereem
Richards says injuries are always a
injured. How do athletes manage this subconscious thought for elite athletes. When I
process and how has the science of athletes asked former World Champion and
injury man-agement and recovery evolved Commonwealth silver medalist, turned coach
Jehue Gordon, if injuries could be prevented
over the years? And what's the psychology with a structured training programme, he
at play in the mind of an athlete at this bluntly told me, “Nobody can prevent an
injury….the risk of injury is part of life and most
point? Dzifa Job explores. athletes do not compete 100 per cent healthy.”
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