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A Brian's Day 16 of the Zero Detailia. We're making a way to Africa and some rare drops of rain in this

very dry, very sunny, jeerily Italian so far. Brian, we've filled a long way from Sicily and

Ortizia where Lionel and I stayed over a week ago now and I took Lionel for some therapy and I

took him for some Canola therapy which was very successful as we heard but Sports Psychology,

well it's a growing field isn't it, it's a field for which there is ever more interest in the

world of professional sports. You used to be a team manager, you were the team manager of Leopard Trek.

Did you enlist the help of a psychologist back then? No Daniel

I didn't but thinking back that probably would have been a good idea. This is a serious matter

so I'm not that I want to joke about it but it wasn't an easy time to run a cycling team and

at least we grew together in the management because we had a very tough team owner but I think in

general for the riders is something that when you've seen that back in the day sports directors

they had all kinds of you know like the Swiss army knife of management and they had to

help riders with everything and now what we've seen over the last 10 years is that trainers have

taken that job from the sports directors and then the psychological element is often and

at least more often than before being looked after by professionals, people who really do that

for living and know the inner dealings of how the minds of sports people work. Well Brian it's

not a completely new development if you go back to the mid 60s they're already guru Sven Garley's

and proper certified psychologists who were working with cyclists in probably the former category

there was a guy working with Janny Mota in the mid 60s a gentleman called Janny Aldord D'Onaato

who was giving him pills advice since then in more modern times teams have enlisted employed

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