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Faster, Higher, Stronger
Stories of extraordinary athletes who have pushed performance to the limit and beyond in pursuit of gold, over more than a 100 years of Olympic competition
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Can you compete under pressure?
Find out all about the psychology of sporting pressure with the BBC’s ground-breaking mass participation experiment, presented by four-time gold medal winning Olympian Michael Johnson.
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Britain has lost a ruthless and competitive edge, and it hurts
Faster, Higher, Stronger producer Francis Welch has blogged about the state of British athletics in the build up to the 2012 Olympics in London.
Read Francis Welch's blog post on Guardian Comment is Free