{"id":842,"date":"2015-11-10T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=842"},"modified":"2015-11-12T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:55:53","slug":"chasing-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend sees the start of a fascinating new TV programme co-produced by The Open University and presented by multiple Olympic Champion and 400m world record holder Michael Johnson. The programme, called Chasing Perfection,\u00a0looks at the science behind sporting success. Two members of the sport and fitness team, Ben Oakley and Candice Lingam-Willgoss, were academic consultants on the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode will be screened on <strong>Sunday 15th November 2015 at 7.05am on Channel 4<\/strong>. That&#8217;s pretty early for a Sunday so make sure you get up early or record it! It will also be available to watch on demand\u00a0on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/chasing-perfection\" >All 4<\/a>.\u00a0Here&#8217;s a little sneak preview to keep you going until Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-842-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_Teaser.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_Teaser.mp4\" >https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CP_Teaser.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/chasingperfection\" target=\"_blank\" >http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/chasingperfection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/chasing-perfection\" target=\"_blank\" >http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/chasing-perfection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/chasing-perfection\/articles\/all\/insights-from-chasing-perfection\" target=\"_blank\" >http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/chasing-perfection\/articles\/all\/insights-from-chasing-perfection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend sees the start of a fascinating new TV programme co-produced by The Open University and presented by multiple Olympic Champion and 400m world record holder Michael Johnson. The programme, called Chasing Perfection,\u00a0looks at the science behind sporting success. Two members of the sport and fitness team, Ben Oakley and Candice Lingam-Willgoss, were academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chasing-perfection","category-sports-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}