Sentences with phrase «number of athletes with»

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A record number of LGBTQ athletes participated in the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with more than 40 openly lesbian, gay, and bisexual competitors representing countries from around the world.

An osteopath with a background in treating elite athletes, Camm is «Personal Health Director to Peter Thiel... and a number of other prominent Silicon Valley business leaders and investors,» according to his professional profile.

So along with the growing number of schools that offer degrees and programs in gaming, KontrolFreek aims to expand the idea of the «student - athlete» by offering scholarships that are over $ 2,000.

We do have some very famous people in videos: people like Arnold, the Rock, Mark Wahlberg... talking about their own workout routines, and we associate with a number of fitness celebrities and athletes as well.

The Marketing Machine helped the organization launch the initiative to raise money for researchers focusing on developing proper conditioning, nutrition, training and rehabilitation specific to the growing number of canine athletes, and the agency continues to assist the AKC with quarterly newsletters and tapping into new markets for fundraising.

An ever - increasing amount of research demonstrates that whey proteins provide the athlete with a number of exclusive benefits.

With a growing number of children, athletes, gymnasts, and bodybuilders encouraged to drink milk, the global UHT milk market could use the opportunity to promote milk that does not need cold storage and can be carried around in personal storage packs.

With the rapid increase in single - sport specialization among children, orthopedic providers have seen a tremendous rise in the number of adult - type injuries in our young athletes, particularly anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears.

With Folsom now the marquee football program that Cordova once was back in the 1970s and 80s, the Lancers» numbers — of both players and wins — steadily decreased through the years as the best athletes in Cordova's enrollment area drove a few exits east on Highway 50 or simply abandoned the sport at the high school level.

These changes have allowed physicians to effectively treat the growing number of young athletes who present with these injuries.

Meanwhile, at the Stadio Olimpico, a suspiciously large number of track and field athletes either were scratched from their events or withdrew with sudden «injuries,» presumably to avoid the risk of being tested.

From a personal standpoint, I have seen an increasing number of athletes coming to my clinic with strained calf muscles, Achilles tendonitis and metatarsal stress fractures who have made too quick a transition to barefoot running.

The Mobb's 33 - man roster (twice the typical number for teams) also varies year to year: with injury (concussions and ankle injuries are most common, though every game I attend has at least one athlete on crutches), retirement, defections to other teams, and recruitments of formerly hated rivals.

Durant joins a growing number of professional athletes who have spoken out against racism and disagreed with President Trump's comments on white supremacists and Confederate statues in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

The coach of the Soviet basketball team, Aleksandr Gomelsky, is Jewish — and, in fact, there are a number of Jewish athletes on national teams and those of the various Soviet republics — but Max, and others, believe that Jews who are allowed to travel abroad are told that if they don't return, they will be denied further contact with their families.

• Please email Coach Webb with the approximate number of athletes and names of the athletes you will be bringing to the meet.

The shock that goes hand - in - hand with the UNC story is attached to the length of time and the number of people affected, not the fact that star athletes were being given grades they didn't earn.

With the rapid increase in single - sport specialization among children, orthopaedic providers have seen a tremendous rise in the number of adult - type injuries in our young athletes, particularly anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears.

Just one month ago, Familia had been part of an anti-domestic violence campaign with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence featuring athletes from a number of sports.

As well as the household names, a number of athletes make their debuts in this year's Championships: these include Mazyar Ossmiasaeed, an Iranian born rider who has recently taken up a British passport; Rob Yeatman who won the national BTTC Paracycling time trial championships earlier this month and at 17 years old is an outstanding young talent; and even younger, there's Sophie Thornhill, a 15 year old rider will team up with 16 year old pilot Jessica Anderson in an exciting new tandem pairing.

I'm very grateful to be one of a number of athletes who receive support from the Virgin London Marathon which allows me to travel to Kenya to train with some of the best athletes in -LSB-...]

Courtney aside, it was a largely disappointing night for the home nations athletes with world indoor champion and pre-race favourite Andrew Pozzi finishing the men's 110m hurdles final in joint sixth after clattering a number of the barriers.

Following an action - packed start to the Diamond League season in Doha last weekend, the series moves on to Shanghai on Sunday, with a number of British athletes among those in action.

A number of British athletes are in action, with Olympic, European and Commonwealth long jump champion Greg Rutherford among them.

Mixed in with a number of world leading performances was Ayanleh Souleiman's win in the historic Dream Mile as Henrik Ingebrigtsen kept the home crowds cheering with his national record for fourth, while Eunice Sum continued her winning ways in the 800m but perhaps the athlete with the biggest smile was one just behind her — Jessica Judd — as she continues her return from injury.

Sayers was among a number of big - name British athletes who were dropped from funding for 2013 - 14, with Jenny Meadows, Yamilé Aldama and Lisa Dobriskey among those to miss out.

Of the estimated 3,000 young athletes currently participating on U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams, only about 30 - or 1 % (here we go with that number again) will end up playing professionally.

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters before and after sparring sessions or bouts using the King - Devick (K - D) test, a simple, two - minute test in which the athletes were shown a set of three index cards with a series of numbers scattered across eight lines and asked to read the numbers as quickly as possible without any errors from left to right.

New research confirms what doctors working with young athletes already suspected: the number of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears among youths, particularly high school students, has risen during the past 20 years.

The McGill study is the first «to say that soft protective headgear for soccer significantly decreased the number of concussions for those athletes,» said lead researcher, Dr. Scott Delaney in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

* This list was compiled through research of archived copies of the Waldorf News and past Pinnacle yearbooks in addition to calls and meetings with former athletic directors, coaches, and a number of former student - athletes.

The imaging changes also strongly correlated with the number of head hits (self - reported by the athletes in a diary), the symptoms experienced, and independent cognitive tests, said lead author Jeffrey Bazarian, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Emergency Medicine at URMC.

However, the N.Y.U. researchers knew that in recent years, trainers working with athletes in sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts, where concussions are common, had begun supplementing the Standardized Assessment with a simple vision exam, known as the King - Devick test, during which someone reads slightly jumbled lines of numbers printed on three cards as quickly as possible.

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

Have a list of the athletes along with their emergency contact names and numbers but do not publish this information.

We have a limited number of clipboards with concussion information printed on them to help coaches remember to look for symptoms of concussions in their athletes.

There are also an overwhelming number of Olympic athletes named David, along with over 30 notable celebrities.

The rate of concussions among U.S. high school athletes has more than doubled between 2005 and 2012, with numbers now as high as 300,000 per year, according to a study published this year in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

For the rapid number naming test, athletes are given a baseline test before the season starts where they are asked to read numbers as quickly as they can off a series of three reading cards while being timed with a stopwatch.

The NFL Foundation Athletic Trainer Grant Pilot Program builds on recent initiatives developed by the NFL Foundation to increase the number of young athletes with access to an athletic trainer.

As part of its commitment to improve athlete health and safety at all levels of sport, the NFL Foundation has launched a pilot grant program to increase the number of high school football players with access to an athletic trainer.

On the other hand, the system of equations, which can be adapted to all variables of interest to athletes (and not just speed), could enable occasional runners to find out the exact number of calories lost during a race (and not a simple average as with today's available tools) in order to improve weight loss.

Athletes (92 in each group) were evenly matched with respect to gender (56 % female, 44 % male), number of previous concussions, and time to the first post-concussion test.

People can also unconsciously detect gender, do simple adding problems when «invisible» numbers are flashed onto the screen, or distinguish between depictions of inappropriate and appropriate actions (for example, discerning between an invisible image of an athlete batting a ball with a baseball bat and an image that has been doctored to show the player swatting at the ball using a flower bouquet).

The study found that remote followers were also keen to support athletes during particularly difficult parts of their challenge, with spikes in the number of cheers happening on tough hills.

That translates into a large number of positive tests — but contrast that figure with the 29 percent of athletes at a major international meet who, when promised anonymity by researchers, admitted to using PEDs.

It is being described as the best old way of building strength and mass, with a number of IFBB pro bodybuilders and other athletes swearing by it.

He estimated that a small number — between five and 10 — refugees would qualify, and that they would all compete under the Olympic flag, and be lodged at the Olympic Village with the rest of the athletes.