Eating disorders jeopardizing Olympic athletes' lives and careers
The Decibel
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Is There a Good Metric That Really Affects Performance?
In your investigation, you talk about how the term sports science is often used to kind of legitimize telling athletes that they need to lose this weight. What did you find out about how science is misused here in this way? Well, i'll in a lot of sports, you know, over the past few decades, we've seen an explosion in sport science and data. But getting rid of metrics that are gathered just for the sake of gathering them, and focusing on ones that actually do affect performance.
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