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action during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group C match between England and Algeria

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Try these simple mental tests to see if you're a good athlete

Your brain’s mental flexibility and capacity to focus could give you the skills to help make you a world class athlete

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Concussed athletes more likely to injure their legs months later

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Humans

Humans are better endurance runners than any other animal

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Humans

"Intersex" athlete Caster Semenya rightly free to run at Rio

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An overweight person eating takeaway food

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Childhood obesity strategy stops short of banning junk food ads

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Olympic athletes

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Inspired by the Olympic vibe? Get moving to save your life

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older man riding a bike around an outside track

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104-year-old cyclist named world's greatest centenarian athlete

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The Rio Olympic pools - one is green, one is blue

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Green Olympic pool: perfect storm of sun, heat and still water?

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Just a few hours’ exercise a week makes your heart grow bigger

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Just a few hours’ exercise a week makes your heart grow bigger

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Gene doping in sport could make the Olympics fairer and safer

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Gene doping in sport could make the Olympics fairer and safer

Sports authorities say they will soon start testing athletes for genetic enhancements. But gene doping is going to be impossible to detect, and it is counterproductive to outlaw it

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Life

Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage

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Desk job death risk is eliminated by an hour's walk or cycle

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Legal ketone sports supplement pushes athletes further, faster

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Russia engaged in 'state-directed' Olympic doping, finds probe

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