Behind Team Ireland: Deputy Chef de Mission with Team Ireland
I’m a Deputy Chef de Mission with responsibility for the performance support team here in Paris. That’s 21 Sport Ireland Institute staff and nine NGB service providers. My primary role is to support our team in delivering their expert services.Our support team includes doctors, physios, nutritionists, physiologists, psychologists, performance analysts and S&C coaches.
I was lucky to have the opportunity to bring those experiences to a role with the Sport Ireland Institute as it was getting started. It’s been a fantastic journey to have played a small part in building the institute from a start-up to a world-class team delivering expertise at the highest level.I think it’s the moment when Kenneth Egan qualified for the Beijing games in 2008.
We figured out that he got most of his information from the hips and shoulders of the other boxer. With that intel he could use his technical expertise to feint and strike. So, he needed to look through a “window” to see the hips and shoulders then the “technician” could go to work. We had his focus.
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