Cool Running Movie Analysis

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Cool running’s is a 1993 American sports filmed based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsled teams and their debut in the bobsled competing that took place at the 1988 winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta Canada. This movie puts quite a few sport psychology qualities such as motivation, determination, leadership, imagery and goal setting. The movie showcases how an underdog Jamaican team who lives In a constant summer can compete in a winter sport due to the fact that they never gave up and used every resource they had available to them including sport physiology. Throughout this summery I will talk about the certain aspects of sport psychology and how the movie shed light on them.
Motivation is seen throughout the entire movie from Derice to coach Irv Blitzer. Derice the start actor was determined to compete in the Olympics as a track runner. However after a devastating fall during the qualifying race he watched his dreams slip away from him. Instead of giving up complete on going to the Olympics he focused on what he could do and took his motivation to start a bobsled...

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