Helen Richardson-Walsh

Robbie also notes the use of mini Olympic days in Olympic sports to try and mimic certain conditions like pressure ahead of time.

I've just come back from an excellent performance psychology conference at Staffordshire University where gold medalist Helen Richardson-Walsh recalled during her keynote speech where regular sessions were scheduled in, where the coaches would just make training as hard and demanding and frustrating as possible in order to gain that valuable reps. in dealing with hardship or even unfairness.

She had a great anecdote where in some of these situations, coaches convincingly role-played a hugely difficult or unfair umpire giving terrible decisions to see what the reaction might be.

And then the second theme was scenario-based training.