***WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 - GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING***''A fascinating book about the psychology of elite sport- Mind Games explores compelling territory.'' Don McRae, the Guardian''An amazing book that I very much enjoyed.'' Simon Mundie, Don''t Tell Me the Score (BBC Podcast)''a fascinating book'' Daily Mail It-s well known that to reach the top in elite sport, you need to have spent years honing and perfecting your physical ability. However this is only part of the template required to win - the other half is about mind games. Throughout her career as one of the world-s top athletes, Annie Vernon struggled with existential questions about the purpose of sport in our comfortable, first-world society: Why do we do it? What is it in our psyche that makes us push ourselves to the limit? What allows us to mentally overcome the physical pain? Now retired from competition, Olympi
