Tom Mitchell

Aug 7, 2024 | siso.org | Tony Calanca |Don Pazour |David Adler |Tom Mitchell

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May 26, 2024 | olympicmind.substack.com | Tom Mitchell

(This is also some stuff that inspires me to this day):The Tokyo Olympics was perhaps the most emotionally turmoil period of my life. We had Coronavirus changing our worlds, I became a father two months prior to the games, plus the usual selection and big tournament stressors. We placed 4th in that Games in 2021. I played no part in the bronze medal match, sidelined through injury. Watching us lose from the stands was really tough. The tournament was over and the tears fell in floods.

Jan 23, 2024 | world.rugby | Tom Mitchell

The only time I was on the cover of a magazine, the headline read: Playing Hard and Fast: Why rugby sevens is the world’s toughest sport.  Rugby has long accepted ownership of the strength, toughness and roughness categories, and sevens has always had more than its fair share of forceful athletes with destructive qualities. But that doesn’t entirely capture how I see the game. How can a game be so full of power and fierce athletes, and yet so beautiful? Is it just sport… or is it art? I think I know.

Nov 30, 2023 | world.rugby | Tom Mitchell

Will New Zealand dominate again? Can South Africa rediscover the form that made them such a threat? Are double Olympic champions Fiji on course for a hat-trick of golds at Paris 2024? Do ‘misfits’ Australia have what it takes? Or is this France’s year, ahead of ‘their’ Olympics? There are too many variables between Dubai in December and Paris in August to answer the big questions definitively. But here’s what we can expect from each of the men’s teams competing in HSBC SVNS 2024.