{"id":402917,"date":"2019-11-20T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=402917"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:30:03","slug":"waynes-world-jerry-world-murphys-new-law-the-brains-behind-world-class-braun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/waynes-world-jerry-world-murphys-new-law-the-brains-behind-world-class-braun\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne’s World, Jerry World, Murphy’s New Law & The Brains Behind World-Class Braun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swimming\u00a0Brains Behind World-Class Braun<\/i><\/p>\n

Should athletes have influence in society? Should they have a say in the way their sports are run? We take a first look, with contributions from Wayne Goldsmith and sportswriter Sabrina Knoll.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Should elite athletes be spokespeople for things they feel strongly about or should they just stick to sport? That was the question put to Wayne Goldsmith<\/strong>, a member of the Swimming World<\/em> team and lateral thinker on sports culture, performance, mentoring and how those splice with the wider world.<\/p>\n

Good question.<\/p>\n

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Wayne Goldsmith<\/p><\/div>\n

Athletes, says Goldsmith in his commentary, have “got the potential to sell some wonderful stories … in places where people have no hope” and little chance of speaking for themselves in the expectation that their voices will change things.<\/p>\n

The voice of the household name in sport can change things, especially at a time when the Athletes’ Voice is being heard above the noise of status-quo politics at such combined volume that those at the helm of governance are no longer in a position to treat this generation in the way that Dawn Fraser<\/strong><\/a> and others were treated in their era.<\/p>\n

There are prime examples of where it all goes wrong when athletes stray beyond their reach in sport<\/a>. Not of which shuts down the ability of many more athletes to have a positive impact and influence on debate and discussion in realms far and wide.<\/p>\n

Listen to Wayne Goldsmith<\/strong><\/em> talk to RadioSport New Zealand<\/em> about the position athletes hold in society and whether they should have as much influence as they do – and how they should act as a result.<\/p>\n