Top athletes struggle to adjust away from limelight – more should be done for them

Citation

Hong HJ (2018) Top athletes struggle to adjust away from limelight – more should be done for them. The Conversation. 01.05.2018. https://theconversation.com/top-athletes-struggle-to-adjust-away-from-limelight-more-should-be-done-for-them-95796

Abstract
First paragraph: It’s just two weeks since the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and two months since the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. But if I was to ask if you had talked about them with a colleague or friend in the past week, the answer would probably be no. For all the headlines about Britain’s fine performance at the games – not least, if you will forgive me, the athletes from the University of Stirling – it’s all yesterday’s news. No matter how astonishing the performances, the limelight quickly moves elsewhere.

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