Paul Thompson MBE has coached rowing every Olympics since the 1992 Games Barcelona. Paul’s crews have won a total of nine Olympic medals where he’s represented Australia, Great Britain and China. Paul has coached at every senior World Championships or Olympic Games since 1991, during this time he has personally coached countless boats to world championship or Olympic medals. Paul was awarded an MBE in the 2013 New Year’s Honors for his services to rowing and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; he is a recipient of an Australian Sports Medal and was World Rowing’s Coach of the Year in 2007. Paul Thompson will share with you his perspectives on the evolving role of coaching and developments in the athlete coach relationship at the elite level of our sport.