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he Olympics showcase what an astounding piece of machinery the human body is: malleable, adaptable, capable of absorbing and rec
he Olympics showcase what an astounding piece of machinery the human body is: malleable, adaptable, capable of absorbing and rec
in Gilde 18.08.2019 03:40von jj009 • 2.159 Beiträge
Hampshire 319 for 6 (Adams 86, Smith 67) v DurhamScorecard Hampshire took advantage when their desire to bat first was granted by Durhams acting captain, Mark Stoneman, in pleasant conditions at Chester-le-Street.With the top five all passing 40, the visitors built on an opening stand of 160 to reach 319 for 6 at the close of the first day.After Jimmy Adams led the way with 86 greater riches were promised when Michael Carberry and the recalled Adam Wheater were putting on 73 in 15 overs for the fourth wicket.They took 28 off the first five overs with the new ball, only to depart in quick succession.Having played himself in carefully in his new role at No. 4, Carberry moved impressively through the gears to reach 48 before he shaped to pull Graham Onions from outside off and bottom-edged into his stumps.A straight drive by Wheater gave him his seventh four and took him to 44 off 40 balls. But his attacking instincts left him in no position to deal with some skiddy extra pace as Barry McCarthys next ball pinned him lbw.McCarthy, who will shortly be on Ireland duty again in the one-day series against Afghanistan, shared the second new ball in the absence of Chris Rushworth.After bowling 16 of the first 40 overs as Durham desperately sought a breakthrough Rushworth was off the field for the rest of the day.He conceded only 30 runs and beat both openers several times, although the greatest scares came in the first four balls.Jimmy Adams, sent back when almost halfway down the pitch after Will Smith played to midwicket, would have been out had the throw throw hit the stumps. Then Smith went perilously close to playing on.Adams drove nicely through the off side and had a couple of leg glances among the eight fours in his 76-ball half-century.Smith needed 121 balls to reach his 50 and continued to leave the many balls wide of off stump before nibbling at one which left him in Keaton Jennings second over of gentle medium pace.Smith was caught behind for 67 and Adams drove a head-high catch to Jennings at midwicket off McCarthy. Tom Alsop played well for 40 before offspinner Ryan Pringle hurried one through to have him lbw to bring in Wheater, who twice reverse-swept Pringle to the boundary.Jennings, deputising at first slip for the injured Paul Collingwood for much of the day, clung on at the second attempt late in the day to remove Ryan McLaren, giving Paul Coughlin a wicket in his first Championship appearance of the season. Jalyn Holmes Vikings Jersey . 10 VCU 85-67 on Thursday night at the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- If you strapped weights to Usain Bolts chest, replaced his six-pack stomach with abs stretched out of shape, de-tuned his muscular frame and explosive power by jellifying his joints, and forced him to take the best part of nine months off, how amazed would we all be if the worlds fastest man fully recovered from that fitness-shredding assault to once again vie for medals at the Olympic Games?Short answer: stunned. Likely adoring.Yet, across the Rio Games, amazing women are doing exactly this without the celebrate-this-from-rooftops full fanfare they deserve.Were talking, of course, about Olympic moms.By competing post-pregnancy, the likes of self-declared Momma on a Mission Dana Vollmer, a swimmer, are showing that having children and a continuing career in elite sport need not be mutually exclusive. That freedom to not have to choose either one or the other is important in encouraging women to compete for longer and later into their lives.On the most fundamental level, if nationalism and the race for medals are stripped away, the Olympics showcase what an astounding piece of machinery the human body is: malleable, adaptable, capable of absorbing and recovering from great punishment.Olympians who have put their bodies through motherhood and then willed and beaten them back into world-conquering shape are the purest embodiment of this.They are also something of a scientific mystery.Kari Bo, a Norwegian School of Sport Sciences researcher working on IOC-backed studies in this field, notes big holes in the scientific communitys understanding of how pregnancy affects elite athletes bodies. One common yet not fully understood impact is on joints.In pregnancy, the body produces a hormone, relaxin, that helps loosen up ligaments and the pelvic area for birth.Once back in the Olympic business of aiming faster, higher and stronger, looser joints arent necessarily a plus.British 10,000-meter runner Jo Pavey, competing at her fifth Olympics, blames relaxin for collapsing the arch of her left foot during pregnancy. She had to wear a bigger shoe on her left foot than on her right and stress-fractured her big toe, with a diagonal crack through a bone.Vollmer, who has an individual bronze and relay silver so far in Rio, says looser ligaments were a big thing for me in her post-pregnancy comeback. Having battled injuries in the past, she worried about over-extending her newly more flexible joints.I played it really cautious, she says. Just trying to make sure that everything was really stable before I really cranked on my strokes.And what of her post-preggnancy abs, so vital in her stroke, the butterfly?There were none, she says matter of factly.ddddddddddddfter seven weeks of enforced bed rest and having gained 50 pounds (22 kilograms), the triple gold medalist at the 2012 London Games was probably 10 percent of the athlete she used to be when she started working out again following her son Arlens birth in March 2015, says her coach, Teri McKeever.Gains and shifts in weight from pregnancy and breastfeeding also disrupt balance and change your relationship with the water, McKeever says.She still had a nice stroke but you go 100 meters and you have to stop, the coach says. Its amazing how quickly you lose it.Defending Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill also became a mother between London and Rio. To stop her from comparing herself to the athlete she was before son Reggies birth in July 2014, her coach, Toni Minichiello, wiped the slate clean, using what he calls post-pregnancy personal bests to measure Ennis-Hills progress since.Physically she wasnt the same person, Minichiello says on a blog chronicling their Rio journey. It was really tough mentally. Her body was changing month to month.Weakened ankles were a post-pregnancy problem for U.S. high jumper Chaunte Lowe, competing at her fourth games, because I had been waddling for so many months.It felt like it was impossible, she says of resuming jumping. You have that question of whether you have lost it forever.Second and third pregnancies broadened out what had been slim, boyish hips, giving Lowe less ideal new curves to squeeze over the high bar.By the third time, I felt like I had it down, she says. But then I was sleep deprived.So why start a column about amazing women with an amazing man, Bolt?Because if men were capable of all this, you can be sure more fuss would be made.Theres a school of thought which holds that it demeans women to make a big deal of pregnancy. After all, the argument goes, women have babies all the time.But few of them, too few, come back to compete at the Olympics. Just 10 of the 298 U.S. women are also moms.I was told that you can never get your body back, Vollmer says. I wanted to show that you can. I think it will keep women in sports much longer, that you can have family and you can make it work.They deserve our applause.---John Leicester is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jleicester(at)ap.org or follow him at http://twitter.com/johnleicester ' ' '
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