Sir Chris Hoy: The importance of doing the work so you can enjoy the experience (E16)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Sir Chris Hoy is a true sporting legend and one of the most successful British athletes of all time with six gold medals and one silver.
Chris won his first Olympic gold medal in Athens 2004, won three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics and cemented his name in the history books by winning two golds at the London Olympics in 2012.
Following his historic hat-trick of gold medals in Beijing , Chris was voted 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He was also awarded a Knighthood in the 2009 New Year Honours list.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to this week's high performance podcast with Jake |
| 0:05.8 | Humphrey and Damian Hughes. Just a quick reminder you can follow us on |
| 0:09.1 | Instagram at high performance. You can also watch full-length extended episodes of our chats on YouTube. |
| 0:15.9 | Just look for the High Performance Podcast on YouTube. And once again, get yourself ready for some inspiration. |
| 0:23.0 | Here's what's coming up in this week's episode. |
| 0:26.0 | If you get to the start line, knowing there's nothing more that you could have done |
| 0:30.0 | within your powers to be the best you can be, |
| 0:32.0 | then you can accept the result you can |
| 0:34.0 | shake the guy's hand if you beat you but if you turn up at the start line looking |
| 0:37.5 | back thinking well there was that session six months ago that I really |
| 0:40.6 | chickened out of when it got really painful. |
| 0:42.8 | If you can truly say you've done everything you can possibly do, |
| 0:46.1 | then you can relax in the day. |
| 0:47.3 | It's a bit like studying for your exams. |
| 0:48.6 | If you've done the work, you can enjoy the experience. |
| 0:51.6 | And you know, whatever happens happens. |
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