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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 763204" data-attributes="member: 7261">I agree with Mondio about "giving it your all" whenever you are competing or with life in general.  The hard part is when you are in a team sport or activity and you see others around you start giving less than 100%.  If that happens,  your mindset might switch to "well if nobody else is going to keep working hard, why should I?".  I think we saw that out of some of the Packer starters towards the end of last season.  What the coaches do about that, we may never know, but I hope the players learned a lesson.One of my favorite stories out of this winter Olympics is Ester Ledecka.  The Women's Super G was basically over, all the top skiers had completed their runs and the medals were already determined in everyone's minds.  Ledecka, who was known mainly as a snowboarder, racing on borrowed ski's ended up shocking everyone by having the run of her life and winning the gold medal.  I doubt Ester and her coaches were at the top of the hill saying "ok Ester, the race has already been won, just go out there and go through the motions"</blockquote>

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