I had a chance to watch the International Rugby this weekend. I saw South Africa give England a lesson on how to play rugby. England suffered one of their biggest defeats ever against a supposedly fatigued team. The whole secret behind the South African win was doing the basics well.
I have seen here in England that the media has a lot of influence over the people and how they think and do things. They talked certain players up before the game to make them bigger than the game. That is normally a recipe for disaster as it proved again this weekend. The reporter than went on an all-out attack on the England Manager, Martin Johnson. This does not help. The reporter is not a solution to the problem - he is the problem.
Doing the basics well will win in any situation. The sports men and women training for the 2012 London Olympics need to learn to just do the basics well. There is no need to over-elaborate with the training. They need to make themselves immune to the media because, in the build up to the 2012 London Olympics, some are going to shine in competitions that they enter. This is the exact ammunition the media wants because it will then go overboard, building the sports person up. Then one small failure and that is it. The sports person will be slammed with the full venom of the media. Confidence that has taken months to build up is damaged in one article.
The 2012 Olympics in London has the potential to produce some unbelievable results provided we just stick to the basics. Do what you know very well and you will get the results. Ignore the media because they have moved away from reporting on events to rather giving personal opinions on what they believe. That is always dangerous and extremely harmful.
Remember DO THE BASICS well and this will be a memorable 2012 London Olympics.
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