Jerryc wrote:
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I was doing my apprenticeship under Thorpe's coach shortly before he and Pieter were duking it outYou may have seen this video. It was made 17 years ago, two years after the Sydney Olympics. It's a little theatrical since it was made for a video course at the local community college
http://bit.ly/1PeCJBx
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That may be a slight overstatementI believe the athletes Jan has advised have won over 600 Olympic, World Championship and European Championship medials. Hard to top. Lot of relay swimmers but they are still medals.
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Yes, very theatrical.
The best measure of performance is performance itself. Power meters measure performance. Lactate measures have a relationship with performance, but like medal counts we are reminded: that correlation does not imply causation. Most of World Level performance comes down to choosing your parents well, having parents situated close to opportunities for performance and quality training.
Hamish Ferguson: Cycling Coach