FUNDAMENTAL sports psychology can motivate athletes for optimum performance in competitive sports. Recognising the importance of motivation, Assistant Minister of Sports Datuk Lee Kim Shin urged all coaches to use psychology as a tool to motivate athletes in gaining the winning edge in the coming Sukma.
“Recognition is a powerful motivator, even a simple comment. It is therefore imperative that all officials in charge of looking after the athletes should have some basic knowledge in sports psychology,” he said during the opening of a half-day course on Basic Sports Psychology at the State Library in Kuching yesterday.
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