Keaney, L. C. , Kilding, A. E. , Merien, F. , Dulson, D. K.
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Keeping athletes healthy at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games: Considerations and illness prevention strategies

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Keeping athletes healthy will be important for optimal athletic performance at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Athletes will be exposed to several stressors during the preparatory and competition phases of the Summer Games that have the potential to depress immunity and increase illness risk. This mini-review provides an overview on effective and practical stressor-specific illness prevention strategies that can be implemented to maintain and protect the health of Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
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Bibliographic Details
Subjects:
Olympic Summer Games 2020 health disease prevention athlete weather climate jetlag competition environment adaptation peaking for a competition sports medicine Switzerland biological and medical sciences
Notations:biological and medical sciences
Published in:Frontiers in Physiology
Language:English
Published: 2019
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00426
Volume:10
Pages:426
Document types:dissertation
Level:advanced

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