PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sport Psychology, Relaxation Technique, Nancy Kerrigan
9 Mar 2020
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Sports psychology: historically, canada has been terrible at winter olympics youd think that our climate would make us good, but it"s about tradition, legacy, etc. In 1988, calgary hosted it, but we won 0 gold medals. No country that had ever hosted an olympics won 0 gold medals it was a unique accomplishment: around the year 2000, it was announced that canada would have another chance. The canadian sports federation did not want to have a repeat of calgary, so they invested a lot of energy and effort in manpower to make sure that canada would perform well. Vancouver, we did the best we had ever done by winning 14 gold medals the most gold medals a country has ever won in the winter olympics. They think it might be helpful for athletes to think there is innate factors: sports psychologists believe in mental, psychological factors, which have to do with how you perform in big game.
