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Science of the cross-country skiing

Norwegian ski specialists have developed a four-step process that helps them decide how the skis should be prepared and what will work best. An NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) researcher says that any mistake in preparation of the base of the ski might lead to a 3 per cent change for the worse. This tiny decrease in performance can make the difference whether an athlete wins a medal or not at high level competitions such as Winter Olympic games in Vancouver.
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Sports injuries as solutions to mathematical equations

Spanish researchers have developed a new mathematical model that permits to predict sport injuries from a series of equations. Their work has proved that sport injuries that affect the lower limbs in high-impact sport, such as football, athletics or basketball, can be predicted through the use of equations of logistic regression. The paper has been published in the journal “Apunts. Medicina de L’esport”.
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How to train like Olympic athletes

A Saint Louis University expert offers tips to train like elite athletes. Whether the goal is to complete our first marathon, improve our golf game or compete in a triathlon competition, there are lessons to be learned from the very best of the best.
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Genes, exercise and personalized medicine

Researchers from 14 institutions in Canada, UK, Denmark, Sweden, and USA have just published a comprehensive look at a group of genes and found a way to predict who will benefit the most from exercise. Their latest work builds on the current belief among researchers that one of the best predictors of health and longevity is our body’s ability to take in and use oxygen during maximum exercise. The more blood our heart can pump and the more oxygen our muscles can use, the less our risk of early disease and death is. They say that’s why aerobic exercise is so important.
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Birth month tells who becomes a sport star?

The month of your birth influences your chances of becoming a professional sportsperson, an Australian researcher has found. The results of the study are published in a Springer book, series “Statistics for Biology and Health”.
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Throwing and catching a tennis ball, a new activity for researchers

An academic at the University of Southampton will incorporate a ball throwing exercise into the research syllabus for new PhD students. Dr Monica Schraefel, a Reader in the Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group (IAM) at the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), is making this activity a fundamental part of the research methods syllabus for new IAM PhD researchers.
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