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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Vitamin D Status and Atherogenic Lipid Profiles, Including Lipoprotein(a), in Elite Athletes. [PDF]

Nutrients
Groesser V, Most A, Sedighi J, Böttger P, Sossalla S, Bauer P.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial commentary: Anatomical insights, diagnostic challenges and evolving treatment strategies for midfoot sporting injuries in elite athletes. [PDF]

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc
Hong CC, Pearce C, Calder J, Dalmau-Pastor M, Vega J, Kerkhoffs G, Karlsson J, Spennacchio P.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source

Signatures in the gut microbiome of German elite athletes: insights from a matched-subgroup analysis. [PDF]

mSystems
Lenz C, Seel W, Dombrowski T, Hacker S, Simon M-C, Zentgraf K, Dawczynski C, Krüger K.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Preparing Video-Based Teaching Aids for Elite Athletes: Software Choice

Introduction. Motion analysis is a common approach in preparation of elite athletes. A good practice is presenting materials of analysis in a CD or DVD format; special software is required to create CD/DVD projects from recorded data.
Pilipivs, Viktors, Fedotova, Veronika
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Echocardiography and Sports Cardiology: Expanding Horizons From Elite Athletes to Advanced Cardiovascular Disease. [PDF]

Rev Cardiovasc Med
Vilela EM, Sampaio F, Ribeiro J, Fontes-Carvalho R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source