A brilliant book. A must read for anyone involved in any high performance business. The Talent Lab is a fascinating insight into the success of Team GB in London 2012 and Rio 2016. Owen Slot gets to go behind the scenes to show emphatically “what, why and how” this was achieved. There is no doubt this will be a bestseller in the UK but also worldwide as the rest try to find the secret to Team GB’s amazing turnaround. * Sir Clive Woodward *

Owen Slot is the Chief Rugby Correspondent for The Times. He has covered six summer Olympics and three winter Olympics. He has won Sports Reporter of the Year three times and Sports Feature Writer of the Year three times. He has written five books: two romantic comedies, two children’s novels, and was the ghost-writer of Jonny, the autobiography of Jonny Wilkinson.

Simon Timson led the successful development and delivery of Team GB’s performance strategy throughout the Rio cycle, as Director of Performance at UK Sport. He has since become Performance Director for the LTA / British Tennis. Previously, Simon was Head of the England Cricket Development Programme when England became the No1 ranked nation, and Performance Director of British Skeleton, leading two medal-winning Olympic campaigns.

Chelsea Warr is the Director of Performance at UK Sport. She pioneered Team GB’s talent identification and development programme, that discovered Olympic champions like Helen Glover, Tom Daley and Lizzy Yarnold. She joined UK Sport in 2005, before which she was a physiologist with the Australian Institute of Sport and then Talent ID manager for British Swimming.

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