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CHRIS WAINWRIGHT Business Committee member, athlete extra-ordinaire, and best selling author now discusses how he motivates his colleagues and staff.
Every now and then in history, mankind or maybe personkind achieves something extraordinary and some of those times unexpected. In May 1954, a tall and rangy 24 year old called Roger Bannister collapsed over the line into the arms of overcoated gentlemen to become the first human to run a mile in under 4 minutes. Some 14 years later in 1968 and at the Mexico Olympic Games, Robert Beamon was starting his run up in the long jump unaware that he was about to leap a colossal 29 feet and 2.5 inches, nearly 22 inches more than any other human being had ever done before. That feat still remains to this day the second longest long jump ever. 16
Such things are rare but those that witness them will never forget the day and what they saw there: their lives will never be the same again. Such is the new life now for the small gathering that recently witnessed the inaugural Beech employees seven a side association football match on the all-weather pitch at Birkenhead Park Football Club. They witnessed greatness. It wasn’t a single athletic one off that they witnessed but a glorious selection of skills, tricks, athleticism and maybe even the occasional miracle that played out. Fourteen players revealed secrets that had lain dormant for so many years hidden under office attire, work PPE and in most cases a copious supply of extra skin and natural padding.
The sporting world had been deprived of this spectacle for too long and it saddens the writer that the truth has taken so long to emerge.
