When our local athletes enter competition at next month’s Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) the support systems they have in place should give them an edge, even allowing for home-soil pressure, according to Griffith University researcher Dr Caroline Riot.
Joining a Brainfood Breakfast – Sporting Success, Nature vs Nature panel (23 March) for World Science Festival Brisbane, the Senior Lecturer with Griffith Business School’s Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management will make the case for the importance of what happens outside sport in an athlete’s life, as a determining factor of both performance and career longevity.
While her co-panellists might argue the hard science of genetics and specialised physical training, Dr Riot believes that the support networks in an athlete’s environment provide the social and emotional backing that are key to sporting success – what she calls the ‘personal development perspective’.
“Resilience, which is often learned in childhood and outside of
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