{"id":6760,"date":"2016-10-13T07:13:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T07:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2016-10-13T07:13:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T07:13:43","slug":"last-word-on-the-two-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/10\/13\/last-word-on-the-two-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Last word on the two Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's hard to believe all that effort is now over (apart from drug-related controversy) for another four years. \u00a0I enjoyed what I saw of it. \u00a0In listening to UK athletes talking about their struggles and sometime success, I was struck by two things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[i] the due thanks given to lottery funding; and<\/p>\n<p>[ii] the degree to which they talked about the contribution of their coaches. \u00a0The latter theme was often picked up by the more insightful <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=6749&amp;action=edit\">commentators<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It got me wondering why young (or not so young) academics don't have coaches to help them get their careers going, and to make the best of their opportunities. \u00a0They do have mentors, of course, but that's <em>not<\/em> quite the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's hard to believe all that effort is now over (apart from drug-related controversy) for another four years. \u00a0I enjoyed what I saw of it. \u00a0In listening to UK athletes talking about their struggles and sometime success, I was struck...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}