Scanlan: Why some athletes are able to 'clutch' Olympic medals

They don’t call them sports psychologists anymore. They are “mental performance coaches” (MPCs) now. “People were getting us mixed up with psychiatrists,” says Wayne Halliwell, freshly home in Montreal after working with Canadian mogul skiers at the Pyeongchang Olympics, including Justine Dufour-Lapointe, who won a silver medal to go with her 2014 Olympic gold. The […]