Are Olympians built differently?
Throughout the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Team U.S. continues to bring home the gold. While we celebrate their success, we can't help but wonder—could I do that?
Aug 7, 2024
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Throughout the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Team U.S. continues to bring home the gold. While we celebrate their success, we can't help but wonder—could I do that?
Aug 7, 2024
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Body paint, mismatched socks, hidden knick-knacks—what do they have in common when chasing glory on the biggest stage?
Aug 6, 2024
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The coach-athlete relationship is key to achieving greatness in elite sports. And at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the margins between success and failure will be tiny.
Aug 6, 2024
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Stress—it is something we all encounter in our daily lives, shaping our health and well-being in ways that are both subtle and profound. Whether it's a looming work deadline, personal relationship problems, or missing a ...
Aug 6, 2024
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With each Olympic Games athletes are expected to break new records. Sport science experts have been speculating for years whether we are reaching the limits of human ability. But they may be overlooking the fields where there's ...
Aug 4, 2024
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Australia's soccer team entered Paris with high hopes of notching their first Olympic medal but those aspirations came crashing down with defeat to the United States.
Aug 1, 2024
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For many people of a certain age, high school gym class began with reaching for their toes. Then, over the years, we were told it was better to stretch after exercise.
Jul 27, 2024
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In recent years, the intense pressure professional athletes endure has come under scrutiny, highlighted by incidents like gymnast Simone Biles withdrawing from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and tennis player Naomi Osaka stepping ...
Jul 26, 2024
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In sports psychology, elite athletes are often said to have two identities—a "self" identity (who they are overall) and an "athlete" identity (who they are as a competitor). Research has shown that the intensity of elite ...
Jul 24, 2024
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Olympic athletes with a nicotine habit, beware. New Brock-led research has found nicotine consumption—whether smoking, chewing, vaping or even wearing a patch—raises the risk of developing heat exhaustion while undergoing ...
Jul 23, 2024
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