ABSTRACT
“At the Olympics, everything is a performance issue,” the legendary US sport psychology consultant Sean McCann stated in his classic article in the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology from 2008. During the annual Association for the Advancement of Sport Psychology (AASP) conferences, sport psychology consultants from around the world meet and share experiences from working with Olympic athletes. In Norway, the sport psychology consultants are regarded to be part of the performance team and not the medical team. Regardless of the outcome at the Olympics, there comes a time after the closing of the Games which seems to affect athletes and coaches in different ways. Working as sport psychology consultants at the Olympic Games starts a long time prior to the Games and lasts for a long period after the Games are closed.
