| When the activities are over and the athletes go back to their quarters, the security people will remain. |
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| Sinus bradycardia is common in normal individuals during sleep and in those with high vagal tone, such as athletes and young healthy adults. |
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| By the end of the programme, it was athletes and fans who hung themselves in public with their own illogical justifications and absurd piety. |
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| I begrudge every penny of taxpayers' cash going to athletes while people are forced to wait for hip operations or cancer treatment. |
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| The anecdotal evidence is abundant and its use by top athletes suggests that it definitely has a role to play. |
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| I watched both of the swimmers progress from age group athletes to junior championship qualifiers to national championship finalists. |
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| It is also a chance for young athletes who have qualified for community games finals to have a run. |
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| Politics and business are abustle with sports metaphors and endorsements by athletes. |
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| Because of the jackpot and the big prize money on offer, the Golden League attracts the best athletes in the world. |
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| Winning a second world title while in recovery from winning the first changed ideas on what athletes can and cannot do. |
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| Sixty clubs throughout England competed for the championship title, sending their best athletes forward. |
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| It is unfortunate that the government or the Sports Association do not have money to give a send-off to our athletes. |
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| This was a daunting task as funds had to be raised in order to send the athletes over. |
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| A number of other athletes got through to the finals and semi-finals of their events. |
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| Adolescent girl athletes are as much as eight times more likely to injure their knee's anterior cruciate ligament than their male counterparts. |
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| The hearing was postponed twice as the Greek athletes provided medical certificates claiming they were too unwell to attend. |
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| The secretary of the Thai Olympic committee mediated an agreement where the athletes were to be reinstated. |
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| Speaking of Melbourne, that was the first Olympics in which all the athletes just thronged into the stadium for the closing ceremonies. |
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| Of all the athletes and gold medallists who came back from the Games, Amir has had the highest profile. |
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| The three people who made the team are very good athletes and they all are capable of medalling for us in Athens. |
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| They believe that they are somehow entitled to a certain level of respect right off the bat just because they are athletes. |
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| Compared with more sedentary people, athletes display greater skin perfusion for the same increase in core temperature. |
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| Indian sports looked healthy when the second string athletes collected 191 medals, including 101 gold, from the SAF Games in Islamabad. |
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| Bigger athletes and sprinters generally start earlier than those who are less mature physically. |
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| Here you have a World Championships and only about a third of the athletes performed at their personal best. |
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| Sudden cardiac death, an abrupt event in which the heart stops, affects one in 100,000 to 300,000 athletes. |
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| As for furthering the association's development, the new president plans further training of athletes and marshals. |
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| Not testing is cheaper and easier than testing, and your athletes are much less likely to be busted for doping. |
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| Protein recommendations for athletes are commonly expressed in a range to include a safety margin. |
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| The athletes who take drugs to gain a secret advantage over those who obey the rules are cheats and scoundrels. |
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| The first minister began a four-day visit to the Olympic games in Athens yesterday to cheer on Scots athletes. |
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| Otherwise, courtroom bailiffs and probation officers might have to start accompanying athletes to the games. |
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| Howland had to jettison the bad seeds and poor fits and replace them with committed, tough-minded athletes. |
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| Beijing was bidding to bring the world's finest athletes to a city with very bad air pollution. |
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| How close are we to the possibility of using genetic manipulation to create faster and stronger athletes? |
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| For 30 years he's watched schlumpy executives and star athletes alike transform their lives. |
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| While the head wind in the final straight will slow the athletes down, the gains on the back straight may more than compensate for this. |
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| Next time you watch gymnastics on the telly, just have a look at how the athletes hold their bodies. |
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| They are adding the last pieces to their backpacks and training has intensified in the last few weeks for the athletes. |
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| Some athletes watch videotapes of a single physical skill, such as a backhand stroke in tennis, being performed with perfect technique. |
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| Picture brawny, ripped men, scantily costumed as Indian warriors, Greek gods, and Olympic athletes. |
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| These were the athletes whose puberty and growth were delayed, and one of the tools was thought to be maladministered contraceptive pills. |
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| Wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries may also have hypertension because of loss of autonomic control of blood pressure. |
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| Many endurance athletes need to consume salty foods and salt to replace sodium losses. |
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| Annette Salmeen was one of the UCLA athletes who took to the ideas quickly. |
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| Unfortunately these substances have been taken illicitly by athletes for body-building. |
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| The difficulty in assembling athletes from so far afield was demonstrated by the experiences of the Australasian team. |
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| The bay was the laurel with which poets and victorious warriors and athletes were crowned in classical times. |
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| Sure, all of the athletes are superbly trained and conditioned, and big lumps to boot. |
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| Doubles luge is a one-day competition in which pairs of athletes take two runs down a course. |
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| A lucky few have mosquito nets and under each of them huddle several athletes. |
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| Male athletes in general face greater present and long-term pressures to succeed athletically than do female athletes. |
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| It is the height of the athletic track season and Sligo athletes are getting in on the action. |
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| Sport is about competing to see who is the best, and athletes have to train hard to reach the top. |
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| To the layman, track and field athletes seem to be injured much more frequently than other sportsmen. |
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| Many local athletes competed in the North East's leading open meeting of the season. |
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| Have a good week at work and best of luck to our athletes in the track and field events today! |
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| I'm really looking forward to competing against other athletes from all over the country. |
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| It was a senior competition and she raced ahead of seasoned athletes to surprise and win. |
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| Secondly, a bunch of athletes started sprinting round the perimeter race track. |
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| The track season is now in full swing and already Sligo athletes are shaping up very well. |
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| Pilates teaches body awareness and is popular among athletes and those with sports injuries. |
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| The aim is not to make the athletes comfortable but to make them champions. |
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| I think this is probably not so much about the athletes as it is about us as a society. |
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| The athletes in some of these cities actually got free meals for the rest of their life. |
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| There is a clear division on campus between athletes and those who have no interest in sport. |
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| These are finely tuned athletes who play hard and are extremely proud of what they do. |
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| Most of this money now finds its way into the pockets of players and athletes. |
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| They seemed to be natural athletes, and no wonder they dominated the game at that time. |
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| He likes his players to be athletes and is always telling us what to eat and drink. |
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| One of the great things about sport is that it teaches athletes to be persistent and never to give up. |
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| Some of us go to watch professional athletes play at the highest level of sport. |
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| How are we ever going to produce top-class athletes if we leave it to children to take up sports themselves. |
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| I have noticed in the last year or two a drop-off in the number of young athletes coming into the sport. |
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| Big money comes more quickly for athletes in other sports than it does in boxing. |
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| But one place that trendy diet doesn't belong is in the lives of athletes, whether they be marathon runners or weekend warriors. |
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| As the number of marathon runners, tennis players and athletes increases, so does the importance of sport-specific training. |
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| These are the obvious reasons for feeling tired or run-down, but for many female athletes, they aren't the only ones. |
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| She worked closely with athletes to ensure that the look of a garment never hindered its performance. |
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| The cynical, bored and disinterested looks on the faces of the athletes should have sent a big message. |
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| Between periods in the locker rooms, IVs drip fluids into dehydrated athletes, who eat bananas and drink even more liquids to fight off cramping. |
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| They're completely different from anabolic steroids, which some athletes abuse. |
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| Tendinitis of the shoulder, particularly the rotator cuff, is prevalent among swimmers and athletes who perform repeated overhead motions. |
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| The athletes will be gearing up in their shooting clothing and bearing arms if they're entering the clay target events. |
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| Sitting on a long couch are three armchair athletes with dour expressions on their faces. |
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| While being coached, top athletes are encouraged to soak armbands and sweatbands in their favourite aftershave or perfume. |
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| Not only that, she was living proof that athletes could be competitive on the world stage and be free of performance-enhancing drugs. |
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| Although many of the current players are former athletes, others are rookies not only to football but to sports in general. |
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| Newman, like many of her fellow rookie varsity athletes, did not get an abundance of playing time this season. |
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| Most of the pros and big-time athletes that were doing juice were monitored by a doctor at some point and had some clean roids to use. |
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| Among the sports the athletes will play are athletics, aquatics, tennis, five-a-side football, volleyball and bocce. |
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| We're programmed to believe that the athletes we watch are all crooks, criminals and creeps. |
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| It was great to see so many young athletes on the starting line for every race. |
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| The Greeks are finally ready, and the world's top athletes are limbering up for the big event. |
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| My phone rings off the hook with teams wanting the opportunity to participate in a meet with such high quality athletes. |
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| On top of that, sports officials should give athletes a bonus anytime they break a record. |
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| What of athletes who exercise in water, such as swimmers, water polo players, water aerobics devotees and lifesavers? |
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| A deeper team roster has been added for each squad, boosting the number of available players that ride the pine to twenty athletes. |
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| While America and the Bahamas were celebrating, Britain's athletes were left licking their wounds. |
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| The three athletes were rewarded with a sight-seeing night out in London before travelling home the following day. |
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| The World Class Athlete Program is a revolving door, meaning all athletes must continue to show progress to stay in. |
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| Yes, it would have been lekker to bring home sackfuls of medals but the reality is that we're only just beginning to produce our great athletes. |
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| He has often publicly advocated a life ban for those athletes who test positive. |
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| Researchers told a group of top athletes they were taking a legal drug that is known to boost performance and allow them to run faster. |
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| The athletes, in the minds of the press and the organizations, are not in the least innocent until proven guilty. |
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| Despite the scare, she's determined to rest up and get herself out to the village to visit our athletes. |
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| The village has been divided into different zones and athletes will have a colour-coded map to help them get around. |
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| Blisters are a common minor injury for athletes who take part in prolonged sports, such as long-distance running or football. |
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| Cross-country running is a great way for all athletes of every level to come and race together. |
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| A ninth lane is being added to the running track at the request of international athletes, and a media zone is being created. |
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| Many body builders and athletes use anabolic steroids to build muscle mass. |
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| Adolescent male athletes are more likely than other adolescents to use anabolic steroids and ergogenics as performance-enhancing drugs. |
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| As other athletes, baseball players have used anabolic steroids to become bigger, stronger and faster. |
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| Such references invited the athletes to see themselves in the heroic Lapiths. |
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| Modern athletes Pat Rafter and Andrew Gaze are ambassadors for their sport and Australia, and yet so humble. |
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| However, at the same time there has also been a progression in the number of ways athletes are able to hide their drug use. |
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| Speakers and athletes alternated between Putonghua and Cantonese as they addressed the crowd. |
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| One solution would be to stop all Government funding and let the athletes try to raise their own money by going back to having lamington drives. |
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| Some athletes routinely use biofeedback, muscle relaxation techniques, meditation, yoga, and stress management techniques. |
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| This is indeed a unique race, regardless of age or gender all the athletes run together. |
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| They accepted that their athletes were in the wrong and deserved to be punished. |
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| Like most athletes, I want to know that I'm competing on a level playing field. |
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| General pushing strength is useful to all athletes who participate in contact sports such as boxing, football, rugby and wrestling. |
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| With the rugby and soccer, we have phenomenal athletes and wrestling could be really big here. |
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| For a country, the loss of one of their star athletes wounds the national pride. |
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| It would be futile to hope that athletes might be encouraged toward exemplary behaviour. |
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| There's no place in this existence where athletes feel the meaning, worth or value they did as athletes. |
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| It was just another day of training in the school, but Kosovar athletes soon welcomed a new day altogether. |
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| The worship of money and bling is hardly restricted to rappers and athletes. |
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| Previous competitions also used poles made out of ash wood which was not flexible, and athletes would sort of climb up the pole as they jumped. |
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| He was one of those fortunate athletes who, although very strongly built, never tended to run to fat. |
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| Gamboa recommends the recumbent bike for absolute beginners, while more seasoned athletes can use the machine of their choice. |
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| Competitive athletes commonly take sports supplements to enhance their health, performance and recovery. |
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| With help from our favorite athletes and coaches, we've built a game-laden plan that turns staying in shape into kid stuff. |
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| There are 140 competitors here from 37 countries and the sight of all these athletes heading out to sea on their windsurfers was inspiring. |
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| This is an exercise that has aided many athletes in crucial situations in other sports. |
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| These athletes have such great-looking rears because their sport effectively targets the gluteal muscles. |
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| But one of the strongest arguments on behalf of sports agents is that they can help athletes preserve and grow their wealth. |
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| There have been other pro athletes that have attempted to mount comebacks after suffering strokes. |
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| Now athletes are using more familiar smells, such as their favourite aftershave or perfume to trigger memories of their strict training regimes. |
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| Additionally, there are 450 kayaks and canoes, with 3,000 amateurs and 1,050 athletes, plus 120 rowing boats registered. |
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| Heading up to the top of the mountain for the afternoons finals the athletes were pummeled by high winds and dusty whirlwinds. |
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| So it is a fairly common injury that athletes who push wheelchairs often sustain, on a chronic basis. |
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| We civilians sometimes forget that these great athletes are just folks, too. |
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| The people in the stands are happy, the athletes win fat contracts, and the owners rake in the money. |
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| We weighed our athletes with accurate scales before a training session, and then again on completion of the session. |
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| I found that dancers and varsity athletes are engaging in physical activity for an equal number of hours per day. |
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| Not only do I love this sport, I think the jockeys who participated in it are the world's greatest athletes. |
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| Directly in front of me, a round lunch table was surrounded by a group of guys, all either athletes and jocks, or just popular boys. |
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| The Olympics would test the psychological toughness of the individual athletes. |
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| These athletes have done more for racial harmony than all the members of the race relations board put together. |
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| And it held the ball on the strings longer, allowing athletes to impart greater topspin on the ball than they would with a normal topspin stroke. |
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| We should refer to participants in Special Olympics as athletes and in no case should the word appear in quotation marks. |
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| For some callers, failure to support local athletes was itself a kind of treachery. |
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| Before settling down to a meal in the Keadeen Hotel, Chairperson of the host town committee, Teresa Harrison, welcomed the athletes to Newbridge. |
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| No one wants to put their finest athletes at risk and this would jeopardize lives. |
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| Too modest to celebrate her success in Pollock, she is fascinated by achievers such as Olympic athletes. |
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| Why, then, do we insist that athletes should develop or succeed in both swimming and water polo? |
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| Our athletes came up trumps across the board, with many admirable performances. |
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| After the shocking performances of Britain's male athletes, few expected them to come up trumps on the final day of track and field action. |
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| That would have been enough for most athletes, but the hungry Hungarian had another ace up her sleeve. |
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| However, from all accounts, our Juvenile athletes appear to be in splendid form. |
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| The coaches have kept the same training regime and Richardson expects the athletes will be acclimatised by the time they move from Erba to Milan. |
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| If you thought disabled athletes were in any way less competitive than able-bodied ones then this mayhem should put you right. |
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| In the athletes' village, it is great to see that everyone treats the disabled athletes the same as an able-bodied person. |
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| They showed no real differences between the physically disabled and able-bodied athletes. |
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| Manchester will go down in history as the first city to have the Commonwealth games running together with both abled and disabled athletes. |
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| Those four athletes are ably backed up by Rose Tully, Tanya McHale and Olivia Flannery. |
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| Meanwhile it is not only competitors who are on the run, and not even the belated efforts to make coaches answerable for the cheating of their athletes. |
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| Please note that in biathlon events, athletes shoot targets, not each other. |
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| College football coaches spend a lot of time recruiting high school athletes. |
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| The case has drawn attention to the fact that many athletes never graduate. |
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| Yes, some people have been inconvenienced by traffic delays or annoyed by supportive athletes. |
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| You mix that with the Jamaican athleticism and they thought it could work with some of our track athletes. |
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| Barkley was referring to idea that professional athletes are paid to do a job. |
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| While judo captivated Japanese fans at the Sydney Summer Olympics, where Japan's athletes walked off with most medals in the sport, it has been on the decline at home. |
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| Leeds University scientists have calculated the birds, including tiny quail weighing mere grammes, are five times fitter than our Olympic athletes. |
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| Yorkshire is on course to play host to more than 2,000 Olympic athletes ahead of the 2012 games to allow the sportsmen and women acclimatise to conditions in Britain. |
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| It's one of those letter jackets with the shiny leather sleeves, the kind real athletes wear while strolling college campuses, homecoming queens on their arms. |
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| Coaches, athletes, managers and parents are being encouraged to attend the four-day accredited course to promote player safety during the coming winter season. |
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| Lactate tolerance training improves muscle and blood buffering capacity so athletes can swim fast, longer, in spite of rapidly accumulating quantities of lactic acid. |
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| These ads are not the kind where athletes tell you to buy specific products because they will make you cleaner and happier. |
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| All the athletes above have been selected to represent Ireland on the 12th July in Dublin at the Waterford Crystal International Grand Prix of race walking. |
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| Many out athletes found their voices silenced by coercion contracts many of their home countries gave them. |
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| It's the first of a number of new initiatives to improve the competition available to Britain's top club athletes, juniors and aspiring internationals. |
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| There is one wheelchair user among the athletes, so a home that is wheelchair friendly, especially for bathroom facilities, would be particularly welcome. |
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| The games will take place over eight days, whereafter the athletes will travel to Cape Town to participate in cultural activities like choir festivals and costume parties. |
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| The games will take place over eight days, whereafter the athletes will move to Cape Town to participate in cultural activities like choir festivals and costume parties. |
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| Even when doping athletes are caught, they often beat the rap. |
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| With this decision, the Board reaffirms its strong commitment to the Olympic ideal of unity through sport, and fair and balanced treatment of all athletes. |
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| Did you know that the athletes taking part will eat 25,000 kilogrammes of cheese, more than 10,000 kilogrammes of pasta, and a hundred kilogrammes of garlic. |
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| But only in recent years have athletes begun to divulge lurid details of Olympic sexcapades and debauchery. |
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| Surely they would only want fully fit athletes and not a man we have been led to believe is on his last legs, just one tackle away from being sent to the knacker's yard. |
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| Such benefits, in tandem with fame and adulation that bordered on worship, unsurprisingly fuelled the desire to win at all costs and athletes were not above cheating to do so. |
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| The poor athletes have to cringe and crawl and kowtow to the mighty officials and association members in order to get a place in the Olympic contingent. |
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| The IA campaign sees a selected number of athletes from 12 sports, excluding wushu, prepare intensively to enhance Indonesia's medal chances at the 2006 Asian Games. |
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| Correct diagnosis is paramount to ensure that proper treatment is started so that athletes may be optimally rehabilitated and returned to sport in a timely fashion. |
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| The AWPL, however, features eight-minute quarters providing 32 total minutes of game play and a little more lactic build-up, leg burn, and lung fatigue for the athletes. |
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| There may be no entrapped pool of human talent left on earth with the dollar value of Cuban athletes. |
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| Stage Three is again untimed, but tests athletes with obstacles like the Hang Climb and the doorknob Grasper. |
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| Curling is an Institute sport and the curlers are Institute athletes. |
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| These athletes represent 16 foreign countries and Puerto Rico. |
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| We refuse to mislead our readers, and diminish the endeavors of our top athletes, by showcasing anabolic steroids as the number-one way to get big. |
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| He helped athletes to cheat, using drugs that broke sport's doping laws. |
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| Well, the nature of the sport requires the various types of track athletes to train specifically for their activity in order to achieve maximum performance. |
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| Lateral ligament injuries to the ankle joint are common among athletes. |
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| At the Summer Olympics, which begin in Athens, Greece, next week, the world's elite athletes will once again dazzle us with their almost superhuman qualities. |
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| Even now, at fifty-one, Herschel Walker is one of the most impressive athletes in the world. |
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| But far from exposing Jeffy once they have discovered his secret, his fellow athletes decide to enlist the ringer in a bid to beat the arrogant champion. |
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| He is not as big as some of the other athletes, but he is ripped. |
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| School trustees may have scored a goal with young athletes Monday night, approving a specialized sports course to be launched from Palmer secondary this fall. |
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| Nine of the 38 athletes who underwent roentgenographic examination had evidence of intervertebral disc disease, and 6 had vertebral wedging or Schmorl's nodes or both. |
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| Assuming he doesn't leap into the pool and challenge the athletes to a race, Harry will then be touring the Paralympics gb House. |
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| Most athletes do not pick up the sport of rowing until university. |
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| With their wet, bare feet, swimmers are more likely to come down with athlete's foot than other athletes, especially during the hot, summer months. |
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| The quality of the athletes, always impressive, seemed to take a quantum leap forward, a happy augur for the future of the sport in this Eastern European nation. |
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| In an attempt to clamp down on age falsification, the organizers said they would demand that team officials submit authentic birth documents of their athletes. |
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| She has been checking with area alumni to compile lists of the valedictorians and salutatorians for each graduating class as well as records set by past district athletes. |
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| All athletes require a well balanced diet containing the essential macronutrients of meat, fish, dairy products, fruit and vegetables, cereals and bread. |
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| You know, athletes, singers, hotel heiresses, their rich friends, reality stars, and even Joe Citizen next door. |
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| American skier Torin Yater-Wallace is taking full advantage of the free McDonald's available to Olympic athletes in Sochi. |
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| The prince chatted with a few athletes and family members before conversing with Canadian slalom kayaker Michael Tayler. |
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| Four thousand athletes in total will be turning out to represent them. |
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| It will be the last time that these group of athletes take the field together before they are scattered to the winds of their individual sporting ambitions. |
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| But as these athletes make such revelations, critics say the hubbub is overblown. |
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| The sponge players who followed Satoh are fine athletes, but the games they play have been generally unwatchable. |
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| I am both a sportsman and a sports fan and I have nothing but good wishes for the athletes coming to Sochi. |
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| Older athletes are more likely to present with tendinitis in these areas. |
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| Indeed, one has to wonder for a community that has spawned scores of spelling bee champions and science finalists, but has painfully few athletes, runners and players. |
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| The athletes and swimmers got to compete in world class stadia and for most, seeing their names displayed on the giant scoreboards was a once in a lifetime experience. |
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| Before the 1970s only highly trained athletes ran more than 5 miles, then along came jogging and now ordinary people commonly run marathons of 26 miles. |
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| Just as March Madness draws to a close, student athletes will again be the center of national attention, this time for their academic and civic achievement. |
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| There is an inexorable blurring of the line that separates entertainers and athletes. |
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| A 3,000-meter rowing course with submersible lane markers is laid out on the Lower Otay Lake to accommodate athletes training in sweeps and sculls. |
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| Last week a senior Italian IOC member criticized the U.S. for sending openly gay athletes in its delegation. |
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| The three athletes have all been seeded in their various heats. |
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| Many celebrated and professional athletes, world champions and Olympic medallists have touted that a vegetarian diet can provide all the nutrients. |
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| The league needs more stars who not only are exquisite athletes but cherish the game and play with joie de vivre. |
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| Next to them, 14 judo athletes took turns throwing one another. |
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| Most athletes show complete healing within three to five months. |
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| Now we have people training full-time as semi-professional athletes. |
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| Such a practice would be more valuable to athletes like Sarah Robles than a multimillion-dollar NBA supernova like Wade. |
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| Most of the activities were either dominated by a handful of true athletes, or they were just lame. |
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| It is the first in a string of references that he makes to male icons, from top athletes to racing drivers, suggesting his ego has a lot to live up to. |
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| If our athletes feel disillusioned from the outset how on earth are they going to beat their peers when they step up to the blocks at the Olympics? |
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| Like the pediments, the metopes include local elements and offered a model of heroic behavior to the ancient viewer, especially to Olympic athletes. |
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| In fact, as the team tottered into town late on Wednesday afternoon, its members didn't look at all like the healthy young athletes who had left Mountain Village on Sunday. |
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| The city is also the home of many sports clubs and some historic and iconic athletes. |
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| Due to its northerly latitude numerous world class winter sports athletes have come from Sweden. |
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| They were the only athletes who managed to qualify and thus represented Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics. |
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| In 2016, ESPN ranked Bale twelfth on its list of the world's most famous athletes. |
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| Louis Games were celebrated roughly 650 athletes participated, but 580 were from the United States. |
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| This feeling was shared by many of the athletes, who even demanded that Athens be the permanent Olympic host city. |
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| The girls are disciplined athletes, trained to think under pressure. |
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| The Games brought together 14 nations and 241 athletes who competed in 43 events. |
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| Germany and Japan, both under Allied military occupations, were not allowed to send athletes to the games. |
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| The National Anthem was sung and the massed athletes turned and marched out of the stadium, led by Greece, tailed by Britain. |
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| Building an Olympic Village was deemed too expensive, and athletes were housed in existing accommodation. |
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| A record 59 nations were represented by 4,104 athletes, 3,714 men and 390 women, in 19 sport disciplines. |
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| The 1908 Games featured athletes representing 22 National Olympic Committees. |
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| For the first time since the Games started in 1896 were all five inhabited continents represented with athletes competing in the same stadium. |
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| There is a general rule that maximum three individual athletes may represent each nation per competition. |
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| Samaranch also wanted the best athletes to compete in the Olympics, which led to the gradual acceptance of professional athletes. |
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| Additionally, new term and age limits were put into place for IOC membership, and fifteen former Olympic athletes were added to the committee. |
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| The NOCs receive financial support for the training and development of Olympic teams, Olympic athletes and Olympic hopefuls. |
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| The athletes or teams who place first, second, or third in each event receive medals. |
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| The athlete may not qualify because there are already qualified athletes in the athlete's home country. |
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| The IOC is only concerned with issues of citizenship and nationality after individual nations have granted citizenship to athletes. |
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| This waiting period exists only for athletes who previously competed for one nation and want to compete for another. |
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| The terrorists killed two of the athletes soon after they had taken them hostage and killed the other nine during a failed liberation attempt. |
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| Effects of kinesio tape compared with nonelastic sports tape and the untaped ankle during a sudden inversion perturbation in male athletes. |
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| At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Great Britain, for the first time in Olympic history, every country competing included female athletes. |
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| Obama's group heading to Sochi includes openly gay athletes Brian Boitano, Billie Jean King and Caitlin Cahow. |
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| Prior to the Games 107 athletes tested positive for banned substances and were not allowed to compete. |
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| The club has numerous athletes competing for championships both nationally and internationally. |
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| BullFrog sunscreen stations will also be set up along the course, enabling athletes to apply sunscreen at transition points during the race. |
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| Increased competition has inflated salaries among professional athletes. |
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| Sprains, tendonitis and plantar fasciitis can affect athletes and others, but with treatment, these and other conditions can be alleviated. |
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| In the early 20th century, many Olympic athletes began using drugs to improve their athletic abilities. |
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| Individual athletes have also used the Olympic stage to promote their own political agenda. |
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| Even athletes who don't normally have a problem may develop some shortness of breath because of smoggier air. |
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| Current MEPs also include former judges, trade union leaders, media personalities, actors, soldiers, singers, athletes, and political activists. |
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| Ghazaryan has close to 30 years of experience in coaching athletes, including long jumpers and triple jumpers. |
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| I especially liked the history of Angel Falls and the record-setting athletes from Trinidad and Tobago. |
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| Androgenic anabolic steroids are used worldwide to help athletes gain muscle mass and strength. |
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| The 114th IOC Session, in 2002, limited the Summer Games programme to a maximum of 28 sports, 301 events, and 10,500 athletes. |
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| After the artistic portion of the ceremony, the athletes parade into the stadium grouped by nation. |
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| The Games brought together 12 nations and 241 athletes who competed in 43 events. |
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| Army All-American Bowl is an annual opportunity for the nation's top high school athletes to participate in an East vs. |
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| Be on the lookout for older athletes with braces on their lower teeth. |
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| Gurmeet Singh, a 20km racewalker, will also be joining these athletes at the session. |
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| Wanniarachchi joins the list of four other athletes, which include three Nigerians and an Indian race walker, who flunked dope tests. |
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| Most of the events are like watching paint dry, with only one or two really special athletes produced with real talent. |
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| After 2012, Netherlands Antilles athletes can choose to represent either the Netherlands or Aruba. |
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| The result is that athletes are now subject to the doping control measures of WADA and the terms of the Code on at least two grounds. |
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| If athletes do too much too soon, they will be stiff and sore 24 to 48 hours after a new workout. |
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| It is also the home of Birchfield Harriers, which has many international athletes among its members. |
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| The athletes will encourage students to make a commitment to sexual purity by remaining abstinent until marriage. |
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| Alberto Salazar is one of the most famous athletes to have toed the line at this great race. |
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| Danny Manning and Edwin Moses quickly come to mind for fans who want American athletes to strike gold this summer. |
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