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With a global population of 7 billion, and only around 10,000 athletes representing their country at any one Olympics, your odds of being an Olympian are about 560,000 to 1. In fact, you’re actually 37 times more likely to get struck by lightning ...but try telling Australian sailors Will Cooley and Amy Potter that!
Their story is an 'Aussie Underdog to Global Fame' story in waiting, and one you'll hear first with Sev. At just 20 years of age, Will and Amy are living their ‘Team Limitless’ creed - ‘Dream Extraordinary’ in a massive way as they set out to represent Australia at Paris 24 in sailings adrenaline-fuelled, hydro-foiling, speed machine that is the Nacra 17.
Will and Amy share what it takes to be an elite-high-performance team, the sacrifice required, the absolute physical and mental peak needed to react and make split-second decisions at breakneck speed on the water, and how, surprisingly, this leads to a kind of mindful stillness amongst the chaos and movement, as two people work unconsciously and in absolute synergy to experience that mythical ‘zone’ that all of us seek to experience in life or in sport.
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With a global population of 7 billion, and only around 10,000 athletes representing their country at any one Olympics, your odds of being an Olympian are about 560,000 to 1. In fact, you’re actually 37 times more likely to get struck by lightning ...but try telling Australian sailors Will Cooley and Amy Potter that!
Their story is an 'Aussie Underdog to Global Fame' story in waiting, and one you'll hear first with Sev. At just 20 years of age, Will and Amy are living their ‘Team Limitless’ creed - ‘Dream Extraordinary’ in a massive way as they set out to represent Australia at Paris 24 in sailings adrenaline-fuelled, hydro-foiling, speed machine that is the Nacra 17.
Will and Amy share what it takes to be an elite-high-performance team, the sacrifice required, the absolute physical and mental peak needed to react and make split-second decisions at breakneck speed on the water, and how, surprisingly, this leads to a kind of mindful stillness amongst the chaos and movement, as two people work unconsciously and in absolute synergy to experience that mythical ‘zone’ that all of us seek to experience in life or in sport.
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