Athletes
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Health & Medicine
Olympians shouldn’t pay a punishing mental price for gold
As we head into the Paris Olympics, the mental health of elite athletes is finally becoming less stigmatised and that can only be a good thing
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Sciences & Technology
The elite athlete training for an extreme Arctic race in a fridge
An ultra-marathon runner is training in a research refrigerator with a team of engineers ahead of a 230-kilometre Arctic race
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Health & Medicine
Nervous nineties or nerves-of-steel nineties?
Cricketers, on the verge of scoring a century, are often described as being in the ‘nervous nineties’ – a new study uses data to sort fact from fiction
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Politics & Society
Abuse in sport: Bad apples or bad barrels?
There are far too many recent examples of athletes facing abuse in sport. If we don’t change the structure and culture within sport, it will keep happening
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Politics & Society
Why international sports regulation needs reform
The bodies that oversee international sports, like FIFA and the IOC, need an overhaul to create an even and fair playing field
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Health & Medicine
Every day, we’re actually seeing into the future
Researchers are helping explain how the human brain can accurately predict where a fast-moving object will end up. And why some are better at it than others
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Sciences & Technology
The shape for speed
Meet Australian swimmers Cameron McEvoy and Kyle Chalmers – one is lean, the other is big. How their different body shapes will decide the 100m freestyle showdown at the Rio Olympics.