Peter Keen, coach of British legend Chris Boardman and former performance director of British cycling, says sport needs to ensure strategies put in place can have impact not only for the foreseeable future but for long-term success.

Keen spoke of his experiences in the UK sport system and reflected that a lot of success ‘now’ can be linked to system or culture changes that occurred many years prior.

“It is probably a six to ten year journey (for an athlete) from when that lightbulb first ignites to somebody who can be said to be a true master of their domain,” said Keen.

“When they are able to not just win but they are able to understand at a deep level what they are doing and how they are doing it.”

Keen’s speech was just one of the highlights from day one of the AIS World Class to World Best conference, which concluded with an exclusive screening of the documentary ‘The Final Quarter’.

The screening was the perfect conclusion to the first day of the AIS World Class to Best Conference, taking place from 6-8^th November, with keynote speakers reflecting on the journey to achieving true diversity and inclusion in sport.

The film tells the story of the last three years of the career of AFL champion Adam Goodes and the ‘booing’ he endured, with film director Ian Darling telling the room his inspiration for the film came simply from his desire to understand what happened and why.

“The key objectives of this (The Final Quarter) was to get the conversation going again,” said Darling “We wanted to hold a mirror up to the nation.

“We didn’t want to be accusatory or lecture people, we wanted people to make their own decision by seeing the footage again and asking themselves the questions ‘Where was I when the booing was happening’ ‘Did I boo?’ Did I ask someone to stop booing?

“And in addition we wanted to get into the classrooms of Australia because this next generation of Australians are going to be so powerful if they can actually have the conversation about race that we’ve found to be too hard.”