Goldmine, programme behind high performance NZ sport

When our champion Olympic athletes spoke to media after their events, they'd without fail lavishly praise the whole New Zealand Olympic squad and the support staff who they said they wouldn't be there without. For every one of our highly-tuned athletes there's a village of experts ... and some of the biggest brains in the land behind them Dr Kerry Spackman is a cognitive neuroscientist and founder of High Performance Sport New Zealand's 'Goldmine' programme. This creates the cutting-edge technology used to achieve the split-second improvements and millimetre gains that can be the difference between gold and fifth at the Olympics. He's worked with the All Blacks, four Formula One Teams, and a little-known driver called Lewis Hamilton. Dr Kerry Spackman spoke with Nathan Rarere.