This is the Guardian. Over the past two weeks athletes from around the globe have been gathered in Paris

for the 2024 Olympic Games and while it's impossible not to admire the physical prowess of the Olympians,

Keely Hutchinson gets the gold, gold for Great Britain, gold for being brilliant.

Becoming a world champion takes a lot of psychological work too.

Athletes have to overcome nerves, unexpected setbacks, disappointments, and the pressure of making

that one performance count after years and years of training.

Yeah, heartbreak for Emma Wilson, but you know, in a few minutes, she's got two Olympic medals.

Well, obviously I thought that I'll let all the Spanish people down a little bit in some way.

So today we're asking, how do Olympic athletes psychologically prepare for the games, and what happens after it's all wrapped up and

it's time to head home.

From the Guardian, I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly.

The 800 meters the other night was just amazing.

That's definitely a standout.

I went to watch Andy Murray and Dan Evans and

Roland Garros as well and that was just amazing. Yeah seeing Andy his last

competition that was pretty special actually. That's Jess Tom,

team G.B's lead psychologist. Jess is in Paris as we speak and ideally she'd get to spend

all her time watching the games,

but there are always surprises and challenges during the Olympics,

so I asked her whether she'd been called on to support athletes in moments of crisis or doubt.

To be honest, the athletes are pretty well supported and we do a lot of planning so that we don't have to react in this environment too much.

When you're doing good sports psychology people don't know that you're doing sports psychology so

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