Sport is about competition. Without games or races, training often has little meaning. Sports are being forced to reevaluate their structure due to the global pandemic, so it as good a time as any to rethink what we can get out of competition and how to organize it. Competition is about more than the final score and the more we set up competition to focus on that, the better. We share some thoughts and ideas on this week's GAINcast.

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• Two past episodes also looked at competition: GAINcast 145 of transitioning from training to competition and GAINcast 122 explores competition management.
• Read some more thoughts on the dual meet from Vern.