Reflections on the Rugby World Cup | Clive Woodward, Dan Carter, Siya Kolisi, Eddie Jones, Sam Burgess, Danny Cipriani and Eddie Jones
The High Performance Podcast
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4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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To mark the start of the Rugby World Cup, Jake and Damian reflect on the conversations they have had with some of the most influential people in the game. We have been lucky enough to go into the training grounds, stadiums and dressing rooms and to hear the innermost thoughts of the key players past and present.
Hear from Sir Clive Woodward on the power of the individual in a great team. A former teammate of the legendary All Blacks, Dan Carter shares the details of the team meeting in which they decide they were going to be the worlds most dominant team. Jake and Damian consider the honest and open conversation they had with Siya Kolisi, who described what winning the world cup meant for all of South Africsa. As well as the above, we hear from some of the greatest players of the game, including Sam Burgess, Danny Cipriani and Eddie Jones.
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| 1:07.6 | Hi there, you're listening to high performance with J-Cumphrey and Professor Damien Hughes. |
| 1:11.9 | And this is us looking ahead to the rugby world cup which starts today in France. And we both |
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| 1:22.0 | makes us feel like that the most is that we see and hear things from elite people in sport that |
| 1:27.8 | you just normally would never get access to. And actually in the rugby world, that rings true, |
| 1:33.6 | doesn't it? We've had some unreal conversations the last few years. |
| 1:36.7 | Yeah, we've had a real privilege to be able to go into the training grounds, to be able to |
| 1:41.2 | have access to the dressing rooms and to hear the innermost thoughts of some of the greatest |
| 1:45.8 | people that have ever been involved in the sport and to understand a little bit about not just |
| 1:50.1 | what they did but why and how they went about doing it. It's been a real privilege. |
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