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By: Alistair Brownlee
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Summary

In his quest to define ‘sporting greatness’, double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has spent nearly four years interviewing and training with some of the greatest minds in sport to discover what it takes to become—and remain—a champion.

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Ian Botham • Mark Cavendish • Alastair Cook • Alex Danson • Richard Dunwoody • Donna Fraser • Chris Froome • Anna Hemmings • Denis Irwin • Michael Johnson • Kílian Jornet • Stuart Lancaster • AP McCoy • Ronnie O’Sullivan • Michael Owen • Adam Peaty • Ian Poulter • Paula Radcliffe • Ian Thorpe • Mark Webber • Shane Williams 

From the age of 11, Alistair Brownlee has been obsessed with being the very best, and not just improving his sporting performance across his three specialist triathlon disciplines of swimming, cycling and running, but also understanding how a winner becomes a dominant champion. Winning gold in consecutive Olympic Games has only strengthened this need and desire.

Over the last four years, Alistair has been on a journey to learn from the best, talking to elite figures across multiple sports as well as leading thinkers and scientists, to understand what enabled these remarkable individuals to rise to the very top and to push the limits of human capability in their relentless pursuit of perfection.

Alistair uses these fascinating interviews, along with extensive research, to explore a range of sports and environments—athletics, cycling, football, rugby, horseracing, hockey, cricket, golf, motor racing, snooker, swimming and ultra-running—to reveal how talent alone is never enough and how hard work, pain, pressure, stress, risk, focus, sacrifice, innovation, reinvention, passion, ruthlessness, luck, failure and even a lockdown can all play a crucial part in honing a winning mentality and achieving sustained success.

©2020 Alistair Brownlee (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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Amazing book - inspirational

From start to finish, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Fascinating insights into the mindsets and personalities of some of the biggest names in sport. Inspirational stuff.

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Not that insightful

I truly admire the author because of his achievements in triathlon but also his humility shown in the way he has carried out this project. However I can't help but think that this book is more of a summary (think Blinkist or Storyshots) than a thoroughly researched and therefore insightful essay. Maybe my expectations set by books of Matt Fitzgerald for instance were misplaced. However Alistair is not only an incredible elite athlete but also someone who studied sciences at a very high level and I reckon he could have dug a bit further on the scientific side of success with more statistics and peer reviewed research. Also maybe he could have shared his own experience in more depth humility is great and the author has loads but this is an audiobook not a podcast so there's space for a lot of ideas and experiences to be shared.

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Great insight to top level sporting greats ++++

Loved every minute of this book, a must for basically anyone who loves sport and endurance.

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Great book, interesting and motivational. Would be greatly improved by a professional narrator though.

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Fantastic book!

Fantastic book from a champion. Best book I’ve read on psychology of champions. Great read.

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Interesting insight across the sporting world

This is a well thought out set of interviews, largely with British athletes.

My only criticism is that it doesn't really go anywhere but does draw two main conclusions, top level athletes are self absorbed and a bit unstable.

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Excellent depth and reach of original research. Alistair Brownlee took advantage of his unique access to similar outstanding sporting achievers to collate and process the truths of what makes the sporting greats so great.

The narration by Alistair himself adds an extra layer of honesty and authenticity to the e-book.

Highly recommended.

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Great read

Some great material and very inspiring figures would definitely recommend anyone to buy this book

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Very good

Very good book, interesting listen and insight to how the elite perform and differ from the rest

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Awesome

Really good listen, amazing to see what other amazing athletes do, to be on top of their games.

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