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What was the fastest 100m final? [PDF]
Athletics: Canada's National Track and Field / Running Magazine
(October 1997), 1997 In a previous article (physics/9705004), the best 100m performances in track and field were determined by accounting for wind effects and atmospheric drag. In this report, I seek to ascertain what was the "fastest" 100m final through a statistical analysis of the competitors' times.
arxiv
Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
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Physiological ReportsThe assessment of athletic performance using non‐invasive methods has been a significant focus in research aimed at measuring physiological parameters. This study explores the application of bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) among track and ...
Álex Cebrián‐Ponce +6 more
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Measuring and Modelling Crowd Flows - Fusing Stationary and Tracking Data [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 The two main data categories of vehicular traffic flow, stationary detector data and floating-car data, are also available for many Marathons and other mass-sports events: Loop detectors and other stationary data sources find their counterpart in the RFID tags of the athletes recording the split times at several stations during the race.
arxiv
‘Cubs of Wall Street’: Cocaine Use in Top‐Boy Culture
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although cocaine use is rising among youth in many countries, little is known about the social context and its influence on this new pattern of use. Drawing on a theoretical framework of class, gender, and peer‐status dynamics and extensive data from personal interviews, we investigate how cocaine use is culturally situated and socially ...
Rikke Tokle, Willy Pedersen
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Ethical issues concerning UK veterinary surgeons practicing in equine sports medicine
Equine Veterinary Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 674-683, May 2025.Abstract Background The ethics of equine sports medicine is a complex subject that is currently understudied. It combines veterinary ethics, sports ethics and associated regulation. Equine sports medicine may raise unique ethical issues and combines common ethical issues in ways distinct from other forms of veterinary medicine.
Kate Allen +3 more
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Athletics for children and young people: a university extension project
Revista Ciência em Extensão, 2011 The extension project "Athletics for children and young people" which has been developed at Unesp-Rio Claro since 1999, had, in 2008, the objective of promoting, among students of the community, different experiences in the athletics field, with emphasis
Aline Gomes +2 more
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arXiv, 2011 Discussions on outstanding---positively and/or negatively---athletes are common practice. The rapidly grown amount of collected sports data now allow to support such discussions with state of the art statistical methodology. Given a (multivariate) data set with collected data of athletes within a specific sport, outstanding athletes are values on the ...
arxiv
The effects of ambient air pollution exposure on Thoroughbred racehorse performance
Equine Veterinary Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 712-722, May 2025.Abstract Background Limited research exists on impacts of air pollution on non‐human mammals, particularly animal athletes such as Thoroughbred racehorses. Athletes have a greater risk of exposure as heightened exertion and increased airflow carry more pollutants deeper into the respiratory tract.
Linda D. Kim +5 more
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