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Players' Illness Rates

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Olympic athletes submit their bodies to grueling training. And then they soar around the world to meet the competition. American east coast athletes traveled five time zones to get to London. West coast [blank] leaped over eight. And increased the odds that they'll get a cold, if not the gold. So says a study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Researchers [blank] 259 elite rugby players in the 2010 Super 14 Rugby Tournament. The 16 weeks of games took place in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. On average, there were 21 [blank] per thousand player-days. But players in their home countries [blank] only 15 illnesses per thousand days.

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Olympic athletes submit their bodies to grueling training. And then they soar around the world to meet the competition. American east coast athletes traveled five time zones to get to London. West coast athletes leaped over eight. And increased the odds that they'll get a cold, if not the gold. So says a study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Researchers tracked 259 elite rugby players in the 2010 Super 14 Rugby Tournament. The 16 weeks of games took place in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. On average, there were 21 illnesses per thousand player-days. But players in their home countries endured only 15 illnesses per thousand days.
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