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miller40



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PostPosted: 08/22/16 9:31 am    ::: Post-Olympic crash and WNBA play Reply Reply with quote
I was reading an article in the Atlantic about athletes and post-Olympic depression. I wonder how this will impact WNBA players since they go right back into their season, not just the physical aspect but the emotional as well. For the Americans, they'll have the high of coming off another gold medal campaign, but it's going to be an experience completely different than the luxury experience provided by USA Basketball (not trying to start another discussion about the boatel here).

Are there stats anywhere for how returning Olympians usually fare for the rest of the WNBA season? If their individual production goes up or down (or stays the same) from the pre-Olympic break?

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This emotional drop, in its most acute form, might be called post-Olympic depression—or, to borrow a phrase from the sports psychologist Scott Goldman, the director of the Performance Psychology Center at the University of Michigan, an under-recovery.

“Think about the rollercoaster ride prior to the Olympics, and just how fast and hectic that mad dash is,” Goldman says. “This ninety-mile-per-hour or hundred-mile-per-hour ride comes to a screeching halt the second the Olympics are over. … [The athletes] are just exhausted; it was such an onslaught to their system. And when it’s all said and done, they’re just physiologically depleted, as well as psychologically.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/08/post-olympic-depression/496244/
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PostPosted: 08/23/16 3:55 am    ::: Re: Post-Olympic crash and WNBA play Reply Reply with quote
miller40 wrote:
I was reading an article in the Atlantic about athletes and post-Olympic depression. I wonder how this will impact WNBA players since they go right back into their season, not just the physical aspect but the emotional as well. For the Americans, they'll have the high of coming off another gold medal campaign, but it's going to be an experience completely different than the luxury experience provided by USA Basketball (not trying to start another discussion about the boatel here).

Are there stats anywhere for how returning Olympians usually fare for the rest of the WNBA season? If their individual production goes up or down (or stays the same) from the pre-Olympic break?


On the one hand, in 2012, the three Olympian Lynx lost in the finals to someone they should have beat. On the other hand, they did make it to the finals and the Fever seemed to catch fire after Douglas went down.
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PostPosted: 08/23/16 7:25 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
I very much doubt that it is a significant issue for most WNBA players.
For many Olympic athletes the games are the one time in 4 years they get exposure. Although they compete in other events, this is the one highlighted on their calendars for 4 years, and they put everything into it. Then in the blink of an eye it's over. In many cases it is straight back to obscurity afterwards.
Very different situation for most WNBA players. For the American ones I won't say it's exactly a holiday or a party, but there are certainly elements of that compared to the grind of their usual routine.



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