Double Olympic hockey medallist Nicola White is seeking legal advice over what she has described as GB Hockey’s “systemic failings” in its treatment of athletes, just days after its women’s team won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
White, who won gold at Rio 2016 and bronze at London 2012, says she is considering taking legal action against the governing body after she struggled to return to the GB programme following her recovery from a debilitating head injury.
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… “I think 30 is the new 20,” [Derek] Carr told reporters. “I feel like I could play another 15 years without a doubt. Nothing is hurting. It’s the middle of camp and I feel great. I feel strong in the weight room. I feel fast, I feel explosive.”
Carr credits sports science and the way team practices are run across the NFL.
“I honestly feel stronger, faster, better than I did when I first got to the NFL,” said Carr. “That comes with more knowledge on how to train and how to eat and how to take care of your body.”
Jack Grealish has become the first £100 million footballer in Premier League history with his move from Aston Villa to Manchester City. This record for an English club transfer may not last long, though, because Manchester City are reportedly willing to pay a lot more than £100 million to secure Harry Kane from Tottenham Hotspur.
Yet the Kane situation has become messy. The striker put on record earlier in the summer that he wanted to leave Spurs, and talked of a “gentlemen’s agreement” with chairman Daniel Levy that would allow this. Spurs, though, are holding firm and in recent days accused Kane of failing to turn up for training, which he denied.
A crucial difference between the Grealish and Kane transfer negotiations has been the existence of a release clause in Grealish’s contract. Such clauses appear to be relatively unusual in England, but they are common in other European countries. So why the difference, and what is the case for the Premier League doing things differently?
… “We’re sitting there quietly and all of a sudden the announcer goes, ‘She’s going for the national record,’” Loanny said. “Of course, her form was terrible. She didn’t know what she was doing. She did it on athleticism.”
“It was a lot of fun,” Sydney said. “The water jump was a lot higher than I thought. I also didn’t know the water is deeper closer to the barrier. Playing basketball, helped me a lot with all the jumping. It’s a good combination. It’s a lot harder than a regular mile or two mile. By the third lap you’re really tired and lactic, but it’s more fun than just running in circles.”
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Orthopedic surgeon Rachel Frank, MD, went straight to the source for her new textbook on treating female athletes: All of the book’s primary authors are women.
“We invited exclusively authors who are recognized nationally and internationally as content and thought leaders in their particular chapter areas, and those authors happen to be women,” says Frank, associate professor of orthopedics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “We didn’t invite authors just because they are women, but in the field of orthopedics, nearly 94% of surgeons are male. This text is an interruption to the repetitive cycle of men at the podium, and men writing the chapters, and allows some really amazing surgeons, who aren’t always given the same opportunities as our male counterparts, a chance to shine.”
… The first obvious change in an athlete’s performance due to their menstrual cycle is the period pains during menstruation, especially in the early follicular phase. The other common negative impact is being worried about flow during a competition, something that comes with the taboo behind period blood, especially when there are cameras everywhere.
… “Having worked in the field for over 20 years now, I am still passionate about supporting the growth of women’s football, as well as my own professional development.
“I plan to take some time out and initially work on some exciting projects with Fifa aimed at developing physical performance strategies designed specifically for women. I wish [incoming England head coach] Sarina [Wiegman] and her team the best of luck, and will be supporting from the stands next summer.”
A chemiluminometric method is introduced for the determination of the stress biomarker, 3-nitrotyrosine (3-NT) based on the H2O2–NaIO4 reaction enhanced by cobalt and nitrogen-doped carbon dots (Co,N-CDs). In this chemiluminescence (CL) system, the emission proved to be originated from the excited-state Co,N-CDs (λmax = 504 nm). Comparing the effect of Co,N-CDs with that of some other metal ion-doped CDs and undoped CDs indicated the high efficiency of Co,N-CDs in the CL amplification (about 1980-fold). This was attributed to the fact that Co,N-CDs, in addition to other functions, could act as catalytic center, to accelerate the decomposition of H2O2 and to increase the number of hydroxyl radicals. It was found that 3-NT inhibits the action of Co,N-CDs by an electron transfer process, leading to a decline in the CL intensity of the system. Therefore, a new CL sensing platform was introduced for the assay of 3-NT in the range 5.0 to 300 nM with a detection limit of 1.5 nM. The probe was utilized for the analysis of biological samples.
Collagens are fibrous proteins that are integral to the strength and stability of connective tissues. During collagen maturation, lysyl oxidases (LOX) initiate the cross-linking of fibers, but abnormal LOX activity is associated with impaired tissue function as seen in fibrotic and malignant diseases. Visualizing and targeting this dynamic process in healthy and diseased tissue is important, but so far not feasible. Here we present a probe for the simultaneous monitoring and targeting of LOX-mediated collagen cross-linking that combines a LOX-activity sensor with a collagen peptide to chemoselectively target endogenous aldehydes generated by LOX. This synergistic probe becomes covalently anchored and lights up in vivo and in situ in response to LOX at the sites where cross-linking occurs, as demonstrated by staining of normal skin and cancer sections. We anticipate that our reactive collagen-based sensor will improve understanding of collagen remodeling and provide opportunities for the diagnosis of fibrotic and malignant diseases.
The recent use of cryoprotectant replacement method for solving the easy drying problem of hydrogels has attracted increasing research interest. However, the conductivity decrease of organohydrogels due to the induced insulating solvent limited their electronic applications. Herein, we introduce the Hofmeister effect and electrostatic interaction to generate hydrogen and sodium bonds in the hydrogel. Combined with its double network, an effective charge channel that will not be affected by the solvent replacement, is therefore built. The developed organohydrogel-based single-electrode triboelectric nanogenerator (OHS-TENG) shows low conductivity decrease (one order) and high output (1.02–1.81 W/m2), which is much better than reported OHS-TENGs (2–3 orders, 41.2–710 mW/m2). Moreover, replacing water with glycerol in the hydrogel enables the device to exhibit excellent long-term stability (four months) and temperature tolerance (−50–100 °C). The presented strategy and mechanism can be extended to common organohydrogel systems aiming at high performance in electronic applications.
… And ICYDK, a lot of thoughtful planning made their win possible. It’s not just the coaches and players who lead a team to victory. There are many other factors that help them perform their best in each game. That’s where Teren Green comes in, the private chef for the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team.
… In a fascinating interview with JOGO, the Amsterdam-based start-up that uses computer vision and sensor technology to gather insights for players and coaches, United’s Academy scout in Holland, Rene Moonen, has revealed how he identified Hardley.
“He (Hardley) had not attracted the attention of any other club – understandable, given that very few scouts come to see NAC Breda,” the Dutchman, who joined United in August 2016 after eight years as a scouting co-ordinator for Ajax, explained.
Seton Hall University has filed a motion to dismiss former basketball star Myles Powell’s lawsuit claiming the coach and the team’s medical staff acted negligently by allowing him to play on a serious injury, worsening his condition and dashing his hopes of a career in the NBA.
Seton Hall’s brief contends Powell has no legal standing to make the claim. It does not address the allegations per se. This is standard practice, since dismissals generally are granted on procedural grounds and not factual matter.
