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Success Story: A Wake-Up Call to a Better Life

By Sam Dehority — 2013

Sean Harrison wasn’t an athlete. Sure, he’s 6’6″ and 200-plus pounds, but flat feet and a lack of coordination kept him from utilizing his size, while a steady diet of Bojangles’ fast food and soda kept him on the couch.

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Parental Pressure Takes a Toll on Young Athletes

There is a fine line between parental support and pushiness.

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Robert T Muller Ph.D.
2015
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Parent Sports Pressure Can Leave Kids with Overwhelming Expectations

Whether pressure is unintentional or by design, kids feel it and it can lead to poor athletic performance and other unintended consequences, including poor stress coping and falling grades.

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Dr. Chris Stankovich
2020
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Emma Raducanu Puts Success Down to ‘Very Hard-to-Please Parents’

Eighteen-year-old US Open winner says upbringing has given her mental strength to succeed.

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Sean Ingle
2021
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Overbearing Parents Can Take the Fun Out of Sports for Their Kids

Experts say the more parents involve themselves in their kids’ sporting events, including acting out on sidelines, the less enjoyable and more results-driven is the child’s athletic experience.

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Vincent Z. Mercogliano
2018
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The Joy of Six: US Athletes’ Pushy Parents

From Andre Agassi’s terrifying father to the dad who inspired a novel, half a dozen parents who just couldn’t let go.

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Les Carpenter
2015
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Brain games: how athletes' minds work

Elite athletes don't just jump higher and run faster—they think differently, too.

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Ben Rattray, Ross Cunnington, Damian Farrow
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The Brain: Why Athletes Are Geniuses

Neuroscientists have found several ways in which the brains of top-notch athletes seem to function better than those of regular folks.

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Carl Zimmer
2010
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‘When You Get Home It’s Really Lonely’: New Research Shows How Athletes Cope with Post-Olympic Life

With the Olympics drawing to a close, many athletes will begin to turn their attention to a crucial yet daunting question: what’s next?

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Joe Giddens
2021
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Second Best in the World, but Still Saying Sorry

At the Tokyo Olympics, Japanese athletes who fell short of gold have apologized profusely — sometimes, even after winning silver.

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Motoko Rich
2021
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Sports of the Times; Olympian's One Regret

Seventy-one years later, Abel Kiviat still gets annoyed when he remembers the footsteps from behind that cost him a gold medal in the 1912 Olympics.

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George Vecsey
1984
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