The International Olympic Committee has produced four powerful videos about the Female Athlete Triad for a healthy body image.
The Female Athlete Triad is a combination of three conditions: disordered eating, amenorrhea and osteoporosis.
For female athletes, the struggle of balancing a body’s needs, combined with competitive sport and training can have serious physical and mental effects.
Female [...]
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While BC Lions Quarterback Casey Printers hasn’t had the hottest of starts, he’s definitely one of the leaders of this year’s team.
But so far, for both Printers and the Lions, the 2010 season has been a struggle. BC is 1-3, and the QB has thrown just two touchdown passes, two interceptions and has a 56.8% completion [...]
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Vancouver Whitecaps FC opens up a five-game road trip beginning tonight in Montreal.
After a mediocre four-game home stand which saw the Caps win once, draw twice and lose the other, the club hits all points of the continent over the next month.
With all of the planes, buses, travel, training and matches, the lengthy trip could [...]
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As they did with the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the Sports Scientists covered this year’s Tour de France inside-out, with a variety of posts that discussed and analyzed the performances of some of the top cyclists in the world.
In the end, Spain’s Alberto Contador captured his third Tour de France title, holding off Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck [...]
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SportMedBC has teamed up with Football BC to offer a series of sports medicine seminars to the football community across the province.
Two-day sessions featuring “Emergency First Aid and CPR course” along with the “Sports First Aid course” will be offered for free to all Football BC members.
Both workshops will cover emergency preparedness, injury prevention and [...]
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