Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu

Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu is a sports medicine physician, disability rights advocate, and elite athlete representing Ghana in the women's long jump until 2016. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. As a physician-scientist, she has worked with numerous global sport organizations and is the founder and director of the Sports Equity Lab, an academic research group delivering athlete-centered content that tackles inequities in sport such as discrimination, social exclusion, harassment, abuse, and bullying, using rigorous bio-psychosocial science.

SELF-CONFIDENCE: I’LL HAVE WHAT SHE’S HAVING

Self-confidence is one of those classic non-negotiables in sport. As athletes, we can all remember moments where the difference between the rush of victory and the sting of defeat came down to our level of confidence. Years on, we may still be analyzing how those scenarios unfolded. Self-confidence is on the shortlist of pre-requisites for athletic excellence. Staring at you from the bottom of an inspirational poster somewhere, inevitably emblazoned…

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