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Revision as of 16:35, 29 August 2012 by Collect (talk | contribs) (1998)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) For other people named Peter Jensen, see Peter Jensen (disambiguation).Peter Jensen is a Canadian Olympic trainer.
His first Olympics were in 1988 ....
The New York Times in 1998 cited Jensen as saying about Alizah Allen, "'I'm sure her parents or coach are saying she's not pushing herself enough'"' but that Jensen said "skaters who look like they are slacking off are often working hard to resolve inner doubts."
The Spectator in 2008 stated "At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, Dr. Peter Jensen was inundated with more than 160 requests for media interviews. Sports psychology was so new and novel."
CanWest News Service asked Jensen about a dispute between Dany Heatley and Ottawa Senators coach Cory Clouston in August 2009 in an article titled " Psychologist says Heatley, Clouston should talk it out." It says " Peter Jensen, who works closely with the highly successful Canadian women's Olympic hockey team, believes the two need to establish a line of communication that would allow them to talk openly about their differences."
worked as a mental training consultant for the 2010 Canadian Women's Ice Hockey Olympic team, in his seventh Olympics.
CBC News Network broadcast an interview by Nancy Wilson in January 2010. Her introduction to the interview stated Two decades later, sports psychologists, and techniques to manage pressure and adversity are very much a part of the regime for any elite athlete. ... Peter Jensen has spent more than two decades working with Olympians. This will be his seventh Olympic games and right now, he's working with the Canadian women's hockey team. She boiled down Jensen's points to four: imagery, perspective, time management and focus.
In the Feb 2010 Reader's Digest article 5 Ways to Be Your Best, Jensen is quoted as saying “If physical fitness is power, strength, endurance and flexibility, then mental fitness is perspective, energy management, imagery and focus. The article describes Jensen as a "psychology coach."
Hayley Wickenheiser in Gold Medal Diary: Inside the World's Greatest Sports Event in 2010 credited Jensen with having her play with "Certain Abandonment", and allowing the Canada women's ice hockey team to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Steve Milton, writing for Torstar News Services, wrote about Olympic athletes and fear. Dr. Jensen's response to being asked about the "fear of failing" being important in the Olympics was " 'Oh yes,' says Dr. Peter Jensen, a Toronto psychologist who has worked with international athletes since the early 1980s, and who was the first sports psychologist officially connected to a Canadian national team (figure skating)."
References
- The Ups And Downs Of Alizah Allen MARCIA BIEDERMAN, The New York Times February 08, 1998
- Hey doc, I've got a problem; Sports psychology breeds success, just ask members of Team Canada The Spectator, Apr 8, 2008, " "He's played a big role in helping us be able to make light of situations and some of the differences and not get so overwhelmed by some of the things," said assistant captain Becky Kellar. "He's very good at keeping things light"
- Psychologist says Heatley, Clouston should talk it out August 22nd, 2009, CanWest News Service
- "Team roster". Hockey Canada. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
- The winning mindset CBC Sports Jan 7, 2010 by Nancy Wilson
- The winning mindset CBC Sports Jan 7, 2010 by Nancy Wilson
- 5 Ways to Be Your Best Stuart Foxman, Reader's Digest, February 2010
- Gold Medal Diary: Inside the World's Greatest Sports Event Hayley Wickenheiser, Greystone Books, Dec 1, 2010, pp 24, 197
- Olympic athletes have nothing to fear but fear itself by Steve Milton for Torstar News Services, Jul 29, 2012
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