EARLY GRAVE
- Peta Bee, performance editor
OF all the studies into the benefits of intense training, it is all too often those highlighting the ill effects that make the most headlines. This week, widespread publicity was devoted to one such a study in the journal Aging that showed medal-winning Olympians died some 4.5 years earlier than their less successful counterparts. However, less prominence was given to the fact that the findings were based on analysis of athletes competing in the 1896 and 1936 Olympics.