“The losses at the Olympic Games were the most difficult thing for me to accept,” he said.“I didn't win the silver medal.I lost the gold.In my mind they were losses.It has taken more than 30 years to get over it.”
Mark Cavendish,Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah have never won Olympic gold,but they came into London 2017 as three of Team GB's biggest medal hopes.Unfortunately,Cavendish has already suffered disappointment in the cycling road race.Neil Adams was in that same position in both the 1980 and 1984 games.However,in a career in which he collected every other judo accolade,things simply went wrong at the Olympics.
In Moscow 1980,Adams was just 21 years old and found the media focus and pressure of expectation too much.
Asked about being a favourite,Adams said:“It is hell,and about how you cope with it in the mind.It can make you afraid to win or lose and there is a difference.I was afraid to lose.Sometimes you freeze.Sometimes it takes you over.”
Adams says that he was very cautious and that when something was tactical and technical he approached it too tactically.Perhaps it's better to go in with a ‘nothing to lose' attitude.That might be the reason why the Olympic Games have often created surprise results.Sometimes it's the ones who keep their cool and work the hardest who get the results.
【语篇导读】 参加奥运会的运动员都希望获得金牌,而那些与金牌失之交臂获得银牌的运动员的心里是什么滋味儿呢?
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