Prima donnas, introverts, and defining the greats

For a media working off morsels to understand what really makes Jim Gavin tick, his keynote presentation at the HPX High Performance Conference back in October, when everyone from Maslow to Mandela to MLK got a mention, was rightly considered revelatory.

A thoroughly more insightful explanation into his motivation and why he and his on-field lieutenant Stephen Cluxton curiously — and for some, infuriatingly — refrain from any Cody or Conte-style exuberance upon winning was offered only hours earlier at the same conference out in the National Sports Campus.

Dr Helle Hein never mentioned Gavin’s name, probably because, being from Denmark, she would not even have known of the man who two weeks earlier had led