We have to learn how to not look back…
During the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics I was able to watch the 110 meter high hurdles. The favorite to win was an American named Greg Foster. “ABC” even did one of those three minute biographies on him. The gun went off and the runners charged toward the hurdles. Greg Foster was obviously nervous but he kept the lead.
But just as he vaulted over the last hurdle, he turned his head ever-so-slightly to see where everyone was. Big mistake. The move cost him only hundredths of a second, but that was enough to lose the race to another American, Tom Jefferson.
Foster is the only human to win three world championships in a row in hurdling but he never got an Olympic gold medal.