Successful Teams Harness the Power of Stories and Connection
Ashley Adamson, a three-time Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster and entrepreneur, discusses the importance of storytelling and creating a team culture where people feel seen and heard.
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WARNING: Explicit imagery Chris Robinson has suffered an 'equipment failure' as he left it all out there on his way to win the 400m hurdles at the Golden Spike meet on Wednesday morning. TV broadcasters were left desperately trying to apologise to millions of viewers around the world as the American runner's penis slipped outside his shorts and went for a jog around the Metsky Stadium track. Aussie gun Gout Gout attracted plenty of attention with his victory in the 200m event at the Ostrava meet in the Czech Republic, but Robinson's wardrobe malfunction is beginning to cause quite a stir. Robinson's baton went rogue when the 4x400m world champion still had another 250m to run and he was seen desperately trying to conceal his thunder as he made his way down the back straight. You can watch Robinson win the race in the video player above. 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To compound Robinson's nightmare, unwitting TV producers then proceeded to show a second, front-on camera angle on his messy final 50m where his boys were seen roaming free in the open air. 'He hit that ninth hurdle hard. He was having an equipment failure there. I think that is probably the politest way to put it,' Hutchings said. 'That's a brilliant run by the American to be constantly adjusting certain parts of his equipment and possibly his anatomy down the home straight there around that top bend there. 'Goodness me. That's a very relieved Chris Robinson. 'It's nearly a personal best with those constant adjustments going on. With that manhandling going on with his left hand manhandling. 'But boy he just stayed in front, dipping at the line.' Hutchings continued giggling to himself as his co-commentator gave an apology for the explicit video clips being shown, explaining there was not enough time to stop the close-up replay footage from being censored. 'There hasn't been time to censor them, but well done to Chris Robinson for battling a problem that does emerge occasionally,' Hutchings said. 'Perhaps in a race every two or three years you see scenes like this from men and women with parts of their equipment failing,' he said. 'It can make it very, very awkward, but that was a stunning effort to stay out in front with all that going on.' Elsewhere inside the stadium, Swedish freak Armand Duplantis' pole was also causing quite a commotion. Duplantis cleared 6.13m before failing to get over 6.29 metres for what would have been a new world record nine days after setting his latest one at 6.28m. The 25-year-old double Olympic champion was in a league of his own once again as second-placed Emmanouil Karalis of Greece did not even get close to clearing 6.02m. 'I feel pretty good about it. I can't complain too much. Overall I feel like I jumped really well,' Duplantis said. 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In the 400m, Femke Bol, a triple medallist from the Paris Olympics last year, only took the third spot in her first start in the event this season, after focusing on 400m hurdles. Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain won in 49.15 seconds with Bol clocking 49.98sec. Eighteen-year-old Kenyan Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech won the men's 1500 metres in 3:29.05, trailing his time in Paris last week by just over a second. Thelma Davies of Liberia topped the women's 100m in an impressive national record of 10.91 seconds. Nigeria's Tobi Amusan won the women's 110m hurdles in 12.45 seconds. Serbia's Adriana Vilagos upset reigning Olympic and Diamond League champion Haruka Kitaguchi to win the women's javelin with 64.87m, topping the Japanese by 99 centimetres.
