Abstract
Among the psychological challenges for which American athletes should be prepared at the Olympics, suggests a three-time participant, are differing concepts of sportsmanship and the virtually inevitable political overtones of international amateur sports competition. "From a psychological standpoint," says former Olympian Wayne Baughman, "when you live all your life with one set of standards, then encounter a completely different set, it can really blow your psyche." In the field of wrestling, where he is coaching the United States' freestyle team in the current Olympics, he finds it helpful that an increasing number of American wrestlers are gaining international experience before competing in the quadrennial games. Nonetheless, he notes that even when funds are raised to provide this exposure to top competition—and often different philosophies—overseas, it often is difficult for American wrestlers to take time away from their jobs and other responsibilities. Now a major in the US Air Force, coach
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