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Jul 2021
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BITESIZE #26 | Tom Daley: Be Yourself

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As part of our special Olympic series with Lotus Cars, we’re delving into the rich archive for lessons from Olympic legends! This week’s comes from Tom Daley, one of GB’s most recognised sportsmen. Tom has won a diving gold or finished first in a major competition every single year for 14 successive years! 🤯

Tom’s lesson is simply ‘be yourself’. We went to some difficult, but fascinating, and challenging places in our podcast so check out the full episode if you missed it. 


Listen to the whole episode: https://pod.fo/e/1760c 


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Thank you to Lotus Cars for being our very special parter for this Olympics series. Lotus has created the new cutting edge Olympic bike to be raced by Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics – 25 years after the Lotus 108 helped Chris Boardman win a gold medal. It is an incredible design you really have to see for yourself! Check it out at lotuscars.com 


Get you hands on signed copies of our new book, High Performance: Lessons from the best on becoming your best, right here: https://bit.ly/3xQwAsL The brand new cover of the book is here too! We love it. 


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