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• Contributors MCC: concept, text and design of the figure – original draft and editing. DP, CN, JWB, DB, CE, IDG: text and figure – review and editing. MCC is the guarantor of this editorial.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests MCC, JWB, DB and CE are board members of the International Society for Sports Psychiatry (ISSP). MCC is an associate editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM). There are no other competing interests to declare.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.