Australian athletes earmarked for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games begin exclusive training camps with the Australian Army Special Operations unit and a group of former gold medallists known as 'the alumni'.
In the past week alone, 100 athletes from sports such as boxing, canoeing and rugby sevens spent time at the Special Operations Education and Training Centre in Sydney.
"All the men I work with at the moment get real satisfaction out of imparting their knowledge and mentoring, developing, teaching, and instructing in their field. "I am the perfect candidate for someone who is always very anxious … I would be very nervous for about four weeks before I raced and I didn't realise that I could learn how to control it," Jones said.
"We see some reflections between us and these elite athletes going off to represent Australia in a year's time … we see some similarities between that and what we do as Australian Army soldiers — our job is to represent Australia in operational deployments around the world." "I know he's deeply invested in ensuring our people get access to the best knowledge and understanding of the human performance space so we can bring that into the organisation and develop all of our systems to invest in our people, its an absolute priority for Army.
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