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Dr. Steve Peters - Psychiatrist working in elite sport

Dr. Steve Peters - Psychiatrist working in elite sport

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Stephen Sackur talks to psychiatrist Steve Peters, consultant to British Olympic cycling.

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With the London Olympics just weeks away, athletes are completing
their final preparations - and that means fine tuning the mind as
well as the body.

In elite sport the title 'head coach' increasingly refers to the
specialist hired to get inside the athlete's head to instil a
winning mentality.

Stephen Sackur talks to the psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters - a
consultant to the British Olympic cycling team and a highly
prized adviser to a host of other famous sporting names. Is
winning really all in the mind?

(Image: Steve Peters speaks to the British cyclist Victoria
Pendleton during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classic in
February, 2011. Credit: Getty Images)