For those of you who have Sky TV you may want to look out for a repeat screening of the following program. It was shown on the Discovery Channel last Sunday and provided an excellent outline of factors at play, and the challenges faced by professional sport persons when they have to deal with life after sport. There are strong links here to the concept of transition discussed last semester. It may well also show up on YouTube soon.
John Eales Reveals: Life After Sport
John Eales Reveals: Life After Sport
What is the price for glory? When the fame, fans, money, training, coaches, support teams and victories are gone, what happens next? Through elite selection, grueling training, inspiring victories and crushing defeats, todays athletes run the razors edge of human capability. Pushing their bodies and brains far beyond the boundaries that limit the rest of us.
Through three extraordinary case studies, starting with the genesis of what actually makes a super athlete rise to the top, Life after Sport, hosted by John Eales, will deconstruct the highs, lows, pitfalls, perils and science of elite athletes as they struggle to make the transitions from normal human to superhuman and back and include interviews from former athletes including Grant Hackett, Lauren Jackson, Layne Beachley and Shane Webcke.
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