The Human High Performance doctoral degree program at the University of Tsukuba was established in 2015, and I (Cao Yinhang) am one of the first students in this program. For my doctoral thesis, I have been working on a project aimed at elucidating the factors that determine individual variation in the hypoxia-induced reduction in peak oxygen uptake among endurance athletes during high-altitude exposure. To gain important insight into actual high-altitude training in China, as part of my doctoral research, I visited the Qinghai Duoba National Highland Sports Training Base (Duoba Base) on July 4-7, 2016. Duoba Base is the largest and highest high-altitude training center in China. The director of the Qinghai Institute of Sports Science, Ma Fuhai, extended to me an invitation to come to Duoba Base. During my visit, I met Chinese national race walkers engaged in high-altitude training in preparation for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
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