When pro sports return, fans won't be there: Experts debate 'a significantly different game'

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When pro sports return, fans won't be there: Experts debate 'a significantly different game'
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How will athletes who are accustomed to playing in front of large crowds react to a new environment? usatodaysports canvassed several sports psychologists and mental skills coaches to find out.

"It’s not just competition. It’s a performance," she said."Many athletes have a schtick that brings them to peak performance, and that is brought out by the audience."

“Athletes are just like anyone else," said Fader, who now runs SportStrata in New York."We all require community. Athletes are performers. If you were at a meeting with your co-workers and only one showed up, you’d have a different energy level.” Betchart referred to"a magnificent lack of energy" during potential games without fans. He said he believes athletes will have to strive for meaning and purpose from within.

Stoll said the lack of fans is more of an issue for the news media and the economics of sport than one athletes must reckon with.

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