Marathon world record holder and Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge hopes that technology will take “centre stage” as athletes strive for improvement and chase faster times in the future.
The Kenyan, who overcame humid conditions in Tokyo earlier this month to claim gold in the marathon, was among a host of runners who ran in specially designed Nike shoes fitted with carbon fibre plates for more spring and quicker times, once again rekindling a debate around “technological doping.”
“If we don’t embrace technology then we are not moving… I know regulations will be there but technology should take centre stage,” Kipchoge told Reuters.
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Brandon Clarke didn’t have the season many wanted out of him last season, but there’s a good reason to believe he can bounce back next season. And it’s pivotal for him to do so.
The current study investigated the associations between female perceived fatigue of elite soccer players and their sleep, and the associations between the sleep of players and soccer games. The sample included 29 female elite soccer players from the Norwegian national soccer team with a mean age of ~26 years. Perceived fatigue and sleep were monitored over a period of 124 consecutive days. In this period, 12.8 ± 3.9 soccer games per player took place. Sleep was monitored with an unobtrusive impulse radio ultra-wideband Doppler radar (Somnofy). Perceived fatigue was based on a self-report mobile phone application that detected daily experienced fatigue. Multilevel analyses of day-to-day associations showed that, first, increased perceived fatigue was associated with increased time in bed (3.6 ± 1.8 min, p = 0.037) and deep sleep (1.2 ± 0.6 min, p = 0.007). Increased rapid eye movement (REM) sleep was associated with subsequently decreased perceived fatigue (−0.21 ± 0.08 arbitrary units [AU], p = 0.008), and increased respiration rate in non-REM sleep was associated with subsequently increased fatigue (0.27 ± 0.09 AU, p = 0.002). Second, game night was associated with reduced time in bed (−1.0 h ± 8.4 min, p = <0.001), total sleep time (−55.2 ± 6.6 min, p = <0.001), time in sleep stages (light: −27.0 ± 5.4 min, p = <0.001; deep: −3.6 ± 1.2 min, p = 0.001; REM: −21.0 ± 3.0 min, p = <0.001), longer sleep-onset latency (3.0 ± 1.2 min, p = 0.013), and increased respiration rate in non-REM sleep (0.32 ± 0.08 respirations per min, p = <0.001), compared to the night before the game. The present findings show that deep and REM sleep and respiration rate in non-REM sleep are the key indicators of perceived fatigue in female elite soccer players. Moreover, sleep is disrupted during game night, likely due to the high physical and mental loads experienced during soccer games. Sleep normalizes during the first and second night after soccer games, likely preventing further negative performance-related consequences.
Tottenham are advertising for their first Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Manager to “drive workforce awareness and development about mental health and embed it into all aspects of the business.”
Brighton have been pioneers in this area, setting up a Performance Psychology and Wellbeing department headed up by James Bell last year.
Now Spurs are also looking to focus on this important area and are advertising for someone to “lead and develop the mental health and wellbeing services club-wide.”
… It’s just that Hardaway is trying to create a program at Memphis that bridges both worlds — it’s college ball with all the marketing might and rabid fandom that comes with it, but it’s unapologetically player-first and NBA-focused.
That includes a coaching staff that includes a four-time All-Star such as himself, Hall of Fame NBA coach Larry Brown, four-time All-Star Rasheed Wallace and Cody Toppert, who is renowned for player development work in the G League.
Memphis isn’t just trying to get a prospect to the NBA. It is bringing the NBA to the prospect.
After Russell Jordan sent a stool sample through the mail to the microbiome company Viome, his idea of what he should eat shifted. The gym owner in Sacramento, California, had always consumed large quantities of leafy greens. But the results from the test — which sequenced and analyzed the microbes in a pea-sized stool sample — recommended he steer clear of spinach, kale and broccoli.
“Things I’ve been eating for the better part of 30 years,” said Jordan, 31. “And it worked.” Soon, his mild indigestion subsided. He recommended the product to his girlfriend.
She took the test in late February, when the company — which sells its “Gut Intelligence” test for $129 and a more extensive “Health Intelligence” test, which requires a blood sample, for $199 — began experiencing hiccups. Viome had promised results within four weeks once the sample arrived at a testing facility, but Jordan said his girlfriend has been waiting more than five months and has submitted fresh blood and stool samples — twice.
Slap bang in the middle of a Venn diagram with two circles labelled “sincere tech startups” and “dystopian satires that are a little on the nose” you will find SquarEat: a company that you would swear is a joke if you weren’t already familiar with how the simulation we’re all living in likes to collide fact and fiction.
SquarEat was apparently born of a simple idea: what if you could eat squares? But boy oh boy does it deliver on that premise.
The company claims to have “created a new concept of food” (squares) which it makes by blitzing ingredients and compressing them into “ready-to-eat” 50 gram packages (squares).
The English Premier League’s decision not to release players for World Cup qualifiers played in the UK’s red-list countries is set to impact multiple national teams battling for a berth in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The decision is spurred by EPL clubs not wanting to see their star players sit out matches on their return because of quarantine restrictions by the UK government, which did not provide players an exemption from its rules. Players returning from the UK’s red-list countries would have to quarantine for a full 10 days in a managed quarantine hotel. That timetable would force players who traveled for their national team matches to miss two Premier League matches, a UEFA club competition matchday and the third round of the League Cup (Carabao Cup).
A diversity report found the NBA continues to lead men’s professional sports in racial and gender hiring practices, fueled by more general managers and assistant coaches of color in the league.
Wednesday’s report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at Central Florida assigned an overall B-plus grade, with an A for racial hiring and a B for gender hiring. The report annually examines positions for franchises as well as in league leadership, with this edition using data from early in the 2020-21 season.
The overall and racial-hiring grades were down slightly from last season (A-minus and A-plus respectively), while numerical scores in all three major categories fell slightly. Institute director and lead report author Richard Lapchick noted that decrease was due largely to a change in methodology that includes team ownership for the first time, which he expects will lead to drops for every league.
… And while Barcelona reel from their mounting debt and Liverpool have a quiet one, other clubs across the continent (ok, all in England, actually) have been stumping up considerable cash to beef up their squads for the new season.
… Why am I, a consultant — someone paid for advice by the hour — saying that you should share advice for free? Because sharing free advice doesn’t undermine your ability to charge for advice. The kind of advice you share for free is far more general than the personalized advice that clients pay for. Besides, most people weren’t going to pay you anyway. Moreover, the reputation you obtain from sharing free advice — at least if it’s good advice — will serve as a powerful source of lead generation.
… While trade rumors were floated regarding Bradley Beal and Ben Simmons, the Warriors stuck to their win-now and win-later plan instead of mortgaging the future. They selected Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody with the 7th and 14th picks, respectively, and signed veteran role players such as Nemanja Bjelica, Otto Porter Jr. and former “Death Lineup” member Andre Iguodala.
“They think we ought to go get the next star. We already have the stars,” Lacob told The Athletic’s Anthony Slater in late July. “And we have a payroll that’s — and I’ve said this when I was interviewed before, but nobody listened. It’s very unlikely, I’ve said that we’re not going to trade for anybody that people are expecting. Very unlikely. It’s not impossible. But if it was going to be somebody, it was going to be somebody really great. It was going to be a big trade. It’s unlikely. …
“So the more likely path — and the path that I think, as an owner, I feel most comfortable with, quite frankly — is to bridge the gap to the future. We’ve got three or four contracts and big players that are still in their early 30s, still have quite a bit of time to go, especially in this day and age. If we can kind of have a [James] Wiseman and a Kuminga and a Moody and a [Jordan] Poole [help in the meantime]. They don’t have to be awesome next year. With a great investment in our player development staff, we just want them to show great potential.”
