Agree at the elite level abecodates of hematocrit so high to cause coaguable blood, but I’d guess most of the studies that show prevelance of AF in endurance athletes are unlikely to have recruited elites and instead class endurance athletes as typical club marathon/triathletes? Given the low inclusion standards to be classed as an ‘athlete’ in most studies.
Yeah there’s no way you could get the participants you would want with full disclosure. If you did, you wouldn’t want to work at the university whose ethics team allowed it to go ahead.
His first hand experience of what went on left him with a very jaded view of elite sport.
It is four times the distance…it takes years of prep, which is one of the reasons why Mo’s form breaks down late on in the race…
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