“Without a crowd, athletes will really have to find that energy within themselves or from their teammates
Mexico team celebrate their victory at the end of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games men's group A first round football match between Mexico and France at Tokyo Stadium in Tokyo on July 22, 2021.And there’s some early, intriguing evidence that having an audience has a quantifiable physiologic effect on the brain. Vikram Chib, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has studied how the presence of observers can affect people’s performance.
For elite athletes at the Olympic level, Chib says the presence or absence of fans may not have as large an impact on performance as it might for less accomplished athletes. So the top podium contenders at the Olympics, for example, may not experience much of a difference by competing in an empty arena. But for other athletes, the lack of fans may keep them from achieving personal bests that the adrenalin rush of competing under the rings might otherwise have provided.
after the pandemic started—without fans—showed that the lack of spectators did affect the soccer players’ performanceOver six weeks playing to empty stadiums, home victories dropped by 10%, players took fewer shots on goal and they scored less than they had before stadiums full of people. At the top of the elite level, most athletes are used to compartmentalizing, especially in sports like track and field or gymnastics, where more than one athlete competes at a time in different events. So walking out to an empty arena might not be as disconcerting to the most seasoned athletes—and might even help some who get nervous while competing to make the biggest competition of their lives feel more like another practice session.
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