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Matthew Syed is a columnist for The Times of London and a commentator for the BBC. He has been named British Sports Feature Writer of the Year by the Sports Journalists' Association and has received the British Press Award for Sports Journalist of the Year. He is also a three-time Commonwealth table tennis champion, a two-time Olympian, and a graduate of Oxford University. Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham and the Science of Success is his first book.