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Competition Human Fuel for High Performance

Training Industry

I feel like I have a great shot to get on the podium again.” But he used that need to push the Olympic star, and push him hard, to propel himself on to the podium. Gregg Toy, who coached Phelps and Lochte at the 2012 Olympics, told CBS Sports, “The competitive environment between those two guys has always been good.

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My elements of style

Jay Cross

They didn’t have a curtain but that better conveys what was going on than my telling you I was whisked up to a veneer portable podium. My mind enjoys toying with such things. In the story of the speech above, there might have been thirty people in the room; there may have been a hundred. I don’t remember. Not in my book. I am playful.