Pinsent's advice to young athletes
Matthew Pinsent, 4 times Olympian champion and now BBC reporter was interviewed yesterday and has some good advice for Team GB’s young athletes who gained their first Olympic experience in Vancouver 2010:
" They should store away all the experience from here, both positive and negative, and use that to motivate themselves. Taking out as much as you can from your experience here, and spreading that across four years of training until you get to Sochi is a real skill. There’s going to be ups and downs; there’s going to be times when you think you’re fantastic and times when you think ‘what am I doing?’, so the experience of the Olympics has got to be enough to last you though that. It is really important for the younger athletes to know what it’s like and what they’re going to do differently next time. They’ll go back with a much better idea of what it takes to be a finalist or medallist or Champion, whatever their target is, and that’s a crucial learning process. You can’t buy Olympic experience, it’s irreplaceable."
(Matt missed the action in Whistler - so no XC rowing then!)
