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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 64-year-old male who is a lifelong endurance athlete. For the past 15 years, my primary activities are cycling and swimming. I work out around 10 hours a week now, so it’s nothing really excessive. But I always push myself to the edge of what’s a comfortable pace. My lifelong cardio exercise enthusiasm has resulted …

Angel Reese is no stranger to making history on the court. The Sky star forward has set multiple WNBA records over the course of her first two seasons at the professional level. On Thursday, she revealed she’d make history off the court, too. Reese announced she would be participating in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show next week. She’ll be walking …

USA sprinter Fred Kerley has become the first American male track and field athlete to join the Enhanced Games. The Enhanced Games are an Olympic-style startup sports organization offering competition in which athletes are permitted to use performance-enhancing substances and methods without drug testing. Kerley posted to social media on Wednesday, confirming his announcement. Kerley is a two-time Olympic medal …

Sprinter Fred Kerley has been announced as the first American male athlete to join the Enhanced Games, the competition which allows performance-enhancing drugs. The 100meter competitor is not competing at the ongoing World Athletics Championships after missing the United States trials, a few weeks before he was then provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for an anti-doping whereabouts …

A University of Kentucky athlete allegedly placed her dead infant inside a trash bag later found in a closet while trying to hide the baby’s birth, leading to her being jailed, according to local authorities and media reporting. Laken Ashlee Snelling, 21, faces charges of corpse abuse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant after her …

Got Neanderthal DNA? It Might Halve Your Chances of Becoming an Elite Athlete  SciTechDaily Source link

Former Swarthmore track and field athlete Evelyn Parts sued Swarthmore College, several athletic department officials and the NCAA on Thursday, claiming they discriminated against her because she is a transgender woman. The lawsuit, which was filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, claims that the defendants violated Parts’ Title IX rights, inflicted emotional distress and engaged in a civil conspiracy. …

An Italian athlete has died after being found unconscious mid-orienteering race, the International World Games Association (IWGA) has confirmed. Mattia Debertolis was competing in the men’s middle distance race at The World Games — an Olympic-style meet for alternative events — in Chengdu, China on Friday when the incident occurred, a combined statement said. The news was confirmed by IWGA, …

The legendary daredevil, best known for his record-breaking jump from the stratosphere, lost control of his paraglider and crashed into a hotel pool. Renowned extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, most famous for jumping from a record 39 kilometres (24 miles) at the edge of space in the 2012 Red Bull Stratos project, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy on …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Simone Biles won two trophies at the ESPYS on Wednesday night, including the women’s best athlete award. The 11-time Olympic medalist claimed the night’s first award, best championship performance for her efforts at the Paris Games. She won three golds and a silver while helping the U.S. women’s gymnasts win their first team title since 2016. …