Joao Medeiros: Winning

Published: Dec. 27, 2018, 5 a.m.

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Great Britain ranked thirty-sixth in the medals table, finishing below Algeria and Kazakhstan. By 2016, in Rio, they finished second, above China and Russia, with sixty-seven medals. How have they so convincingly reversed their fortunes? This week Simon sits down with Author Joao Medeiros, who literally wrote the book explaining how. Joao explains the key ingredients behind Team GB’s sporting revolution, and they discuss some of those things workplaces would do well to adopt.