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High Performance Conference, Scotland
On the Road to Rio, Sport Scotland, the national agency for Sport, gathered stakeholders in Scottish Sports’ success in Dunblane to focus on driving high performance.
The New Horizons event was attended by national coaches, performance directors of governing bodies of each of the major sports, including cycling, rugby, tennis, judo, snowboarding, bowls, hockey, netball, swimming, golf, curling, triathlon; key staff from British governing bodies; and other national sporting organisations like British Olympic Association and Commonwealth Games Scotland. Also participating were a plethora of performance providers, including physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, psychologists, strength & conditioning coaches, performance lifestyle advisers, and sports medicine doctors.
Not the environment in which to over index on the carbs.
Richard never made a first team at sport (according to his personal trainer, former javelin thrower Matt Bamford, this might be true of many coaches) But he can identify with some of the sacrifices coaches, support acts to elite performers, have to accept: less cash than their protagonists, less status, almost certainly less job security (the caddy is typically the first to go after a succession of lousy rounds) and, depending on the character of their performer, less courtesy too.
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