NEWS EIS hosts ‘Adapting to Extreme Environments’ workshop ahead of Tokyo 2020
This week, the EIS #CollectiveBrilliance team, in collaboration with the British Olympic Association, British Paralympic Association and UK Sport hosted an ‘Adapting to Extreme Environments: Decision making for Tokyo 2020’ workshop, the first of its kind in the current cycle. The workshop was led by EIS Head of Learning Alex Wolf and Head of Performance Knowledge Pete Brown.
The EIS were central to the planning, design and delivery of the event with the audience made up of a number of different sports. The aim for the workshop was to bring sports together to share knowledge and help find solutions to problems quicker.
The title of the workshop was decided with the environmental challenges of competing in Tokyo in mind. July and August are typically the hottest and most humid times of year in Tokyo, which is when the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics are due to take place.
The day included guest speakers including James Moore from the BOA, Nik Diaper from the BPA, Prof Greg Whyte and Jelle Staleman – a mountaineering guide who climbed K2, the second highest mountain in the world, after Mount Everest, and sadly lost many colleagues on the attempt. There were also several sessions aided by EIS staff exploring the complex nature of performance problems and solutions.
EIS Head of Performance Knowledge Pete Brown said: “This workshop demonstrated one of the key EIS values, collaboration, and showed how bringing people together from across the system in a collective approach can really help to connect people, solve complex performance problems and pass on key experiences to help support the preparations for Tokyo 2020 across all areas of planning and performance.
“Tokyo presents a unique performance environment for everyone and this workshop allowed the EIS to help enable the system to make sense of their world, their preparations, their performance threats and to learn and network with other sports, with the main outcome looking to maximise the chances of success at the Games.”