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Outside Magazine, August 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Weird World of Cutting-Edge Olympic Training

These three athletes are guinea pigs for the latest in athletic science

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Olympic athletes will try anything to get an edge. Via Shutterstock Photo: Dudarev Mikhail

Would you take a 160-degree sauna after a brutal training ride? Attach electrodes to monitor your brain waves? Run while being scrutinized by a high-speed camera? These three athletes are trying it out, all in the name of edging out the competition.

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