Sally Carbon
Locking together 20 years of high performance sport, with 20 years of helping other athletes to achieve (as a mentor), plus raising $50 million per year to support Australian athletes, plus parenting our own little athletes, gives you a great deal of fodder to write a collection of books. I read a lot of 'inspiration' books and a little selective romance (eg Black Dagger Brotherhood) and watch many sporting documentaries. I recall watching Netflix 'Fittest on Earth' (2017). I was hooked into the 'observer effect' realising that these 'strange' athletes were athletes completely invested in being brilliant. Plus, I was lavishing lapping up the poetic words used by four narrators of the documentary. They fused fiction and non-fiction like a new-age artform.
Its this pseudo fictional, pseudo factual style I used to create TEAM MATES and TEAM PURSUIT. I recall the 'Fittest on Earth' line 'these athletes deliberately choose crazy'. And oh my gosh, its so true. The best athletes in the world choose crazy. You have to choose to go into a psychological zone not recommended, and this is why athletes have trouble fitting into a more socially pattern during and after their sporting eras.
**Throw in a side-serve of 'Last Chance U' and Australian football (AFL) on TV, and I'm a happy lady.
Its this pseudo fictional, pseudo factual style I used to create TEAM MATES and TEAM PURSUIT. I recall the 'Fittest on Earth' line 'these athletes deliberately choose crazy'. And oh my gosh, its so true. The best athletes in the world choose crazy. You have to choose to go into a psychological zone not recommended, and this is why athletes have trouble fitting into a more socially pattern during and after their sporting eras.
**Throw in a side-serve of 'Last Chance U' and Australian football (AFL) on TV, and I'm a happy lady.
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