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IOC Concensus Statement
Dietary Supplements & The High Performance Athlete
Nutrition usually makes a small but potentially valuable contribution to successful performance in elite athletes, and dietary supplements can make a minor contribution to this nutrition programme. Nonetheless, supplement use is widespread at all levels of sport.
Dr Janesh Ganda
Infections In Athletes
Endurance training can predispose an athlete to several infections because of numerous factors:
- Increased training loads
- Stress – physical & mental
- Travel
- Dry air in the plane
- Other passengers
Dr Jason Suter
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
The association between harm avoidance personality traits and self-reported concussion history in South African rugby union players