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That they lift weights like sprinters, strategise like chess players, and fuel like Tour de France cyclists?

From BBC

Both Canada and the USA have rosters full of players from the NHL, who are playing at an Olympics for the first time since 2014.

From Barron's

"The trouble is that a host of players who had been central to those series wins have fallen off a cliff when the stakes are at their highest."

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Vinicius had just scored the only goal of the game in the 50th minute when he provoked the ire of Benfica fans, and some players, by celebrating in front of the home crowd in Lisbon.

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Sports data analysis has surged since the days of "Moneyball", the hit 2011 film with Brad Pitt that recounts manager Billy Beane's groundbreaking exploitation of player statistics at the Oakland Athletics baseball team.

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