Ep. 32 | Road to Paris 2024 Olympics - Claire Orcel

Today we welcome professional Belgian high jumper, Claire Orcel, to the podcast.✅Topics Discussed: 🏃‍♀️How Claire got into high jump.🗣How important her coach, Thierry Briquemont, has been in shaping her as an athlete & as a person, having been there since the very beginning.🏆Claire’s experience of achieving her PB of 1.94m.😓Her disappointment for not making it at the recent Tokyo 2020 Olympics, missing out by 1 place.🧘‍♀️Her opinions on the most important psychological qualities she believes make a successful high jumper as well as some psychological techniques she uses prior to competition.🧠The type of work she is doing with her sport psychologist.✈️ Realities of travelling to competitions around Europe & how mentally draining it can be for an athlete.