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The Yips

By David Owen — 2014

What’s behind the condition that every golfer dreads?

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Baseball Was My Life. Then I Stopped Being Able to Throw the Ball.

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Naomi Gordon-Loebl
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Ten Athletes Who Got the Yips—and How Their Careers Turned Out

Some get over it; some are never the same.

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Daniel Hersh
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How Perfectionism Affects Athletes’ Performance After Competitive Failure

Elite athletes are more likely to rise to the occasion after a failure if they keep potential unhelpful consequences of striving for perfection in check, according to a University of Alberta study, the first of its kind to investigate perfectionism and performance following failure in competitive...

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Michael Brown
2020
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Mental Coach of Top Athletes Shares 3 Steps to Handling Pressure Like an Olympian

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Yoni Blumberg
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How Pro Athletes Deal With Pressure

When Minnesota Vikings punter Jeff Locke learned how to control his attention, he learned how to cope better with pressure and improved his performance in games. Pressure can get to any athlete, that is, if the athlete lets it happen.

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Under Pressure: Why Athletes Choke

What makes an elite sports star suddenly unable to do the very thing they have been practising for years? And is there anything they can do about it?

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A. Mark Williams, Tim Wigmore
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