Dear Reader,

As we approach the end of 2016, and publish our final issue of Sports Medicine for the year, we wish to reflect on another successful year for the journal, and thank all those who have contributed to Sports Medicine in 2016.

Looking back over the past five years, the Sports Medicine volume has more than doubled in size: from 64 articles in 2012 to 134 articles in 2016. This growth reflects an increasing number of authors contributing manuscripts to Sports Medicine and we would, firstly, like to acknowledge how indebted we are to all of the authors who have chosen to support Sports Medicine.

The fact that Sports Medicine’s impact factor has remained high as the journal has grown provides reassurance that the increase in quantity has not been paralleled by a reduction in quality. This not only reflects the skill and dedication of the contributing authors, but also, the significant efforts of the many expert peer reviewers, whose commitment ensures that the journal’s content remains held to the highest possible standard.

We would like to thank the following individuals who have acted as peer reviewers for Sports Medicine over the past 12 months:

Chris Abbiss, Australia

Andrew Abraham, UK

Paul Ackermann, Sweden

Eva Ageberg, Sweden

Richard Akenhead, Qatar

Brandon Alderman, USA

Bara Alsalaheen, USA

Soichi Ando, Japan

Peter Angell, UK

Elizabeth Arendt, USA

Christos Argus, Australia

Miranda Armstrong, UK

Lawrence Armstrong, USA

Pierrick Arnal, France

Arni Arnarson, Iceland

Calum Arthur, UK

Michael Ashenden, Australia

Carl Askling, Sweden

David Bacharach, USA

Stephen Bailey, UK

Ruben Barakat, Spain

Adad Baranto, Sweden

Alan Barker, UK

Richard Barker, New Zealand

Gill Barry, UK

Alan Batterham, UK

Christine Baugh, USA

Jochen Baumeister, Germany

Jeffrey Bazarian, USA

Milou Beelen, The Netherlands

David Behm, Canada

Anne Benjaminse, The Netherlands

Peter Biberthaler, Germany

François Bieuzen, Canada

Katherine Black, New Zealand

Wilhelm Bloch, Germany

Gregory Bogdanis, Greece

Jens Bojsen-Møller, Norway

Coen Bongers, The Netherlands

Petros Botonis, Greece

Martim Bottaro, Brazil

Lindsay Bottoms, UK

Stephen Boutcher, Australia

Mohamed Amine Bouzid, Tunisia

J. David Branch, USA

Raphael Brandon, UK

William Braun, USA

Jeri Brittin, USA

Elizabeth Broad, USA

Steven Broglio, USA

Alison Brooks, USA

Lee Brown, USA

Wendy Brown, Australia

Gert-Peter Brüggemann, Germany

Wioletta Brzenczek-Owczarzak, Poland

Jonathan Buckley, Australia

Nicholas Burd, USA

Louise Burke, Australia

Jamie Burr, Canada

Martin Burtscher, Austria

Kate Button, UK

Jose Antonio Lopez Calbet, Spain

Kristina Calder, Canada

Mike Callan, UK

Robin Callister, Australia

David Camarillo, USA

Robin Candau, France

Darren Candow, Canada

Robert Cantu, USA

Andrew Carey, Australia

Kai-Hakon Carlsen, Norway

Andrew Carr, UK

Marti Casals, Spain

José Castro-Piñero, Spain

Rafael Casuso, Spain

Karim Chamari, Qatar

Lisa Chasan-Taber, USA

Bobby Cheema, Australia

Stephen Cheung, Canada

Michael Chia, Singapore

Philip Chilibeck, Canada

Yu-Han Chiu, USA

Jia Chow, Singapore

Anita Christie, USA

Danilo Cialoni, Italy

Ken Clark, USA

James Cobley, UK

Manuel Coelho-e-Silva, Portugal

Alysia Cohen, USA

Giovanna Colombetti, UK

Paul Comfort, UK

Brett Comstock, USA

Michael Connor, Canada

Jeff Coombes, Australia

Robert Copeland, UK

Rita Cordovil, Portugal

Stuart Cormack, Australia

Veronique Cornelissen, Belgium

Joshua Cotter, USA

Mariana Couto, Portugal

Fiona Crawford, USA

Scott Crouter, USA

Katharine Currie, Canada

Alan Currie, UK

Andrew Dalziell, UK

Gali Dar, Israel

Keith Davids, UK

George Davies, USA

Luciana Janot de Matos, Brazil

Erick Prado de Oliveira, Brazil

Eduardo de Souza, Brazil

Louis DeFrate, USA

Hendrik DeHeer, USA

Silvia Del Din, UK

Alasdair Dempsey, Australia

Zachary Dezman, USA

Gonçalo Dias, Portugal

Nikolaos Digelidis, Greece

Fred DiMenna, USA

Filipe Dinato de Lima, Brazil

Peng Ding, USA

Robert DiSilvestro, USA

Karol Dokladny, USA

Alex Donaldson, Australia

Lars Donath, Switzerland

James Donnelly, Australia

Cyril Donnelly, Australia

Alan Donnelly, Ireland

Catherine Draper, South Africa

Michael Drew, Australia

Tarak Driss, France

Hervé Dubouchaud, France

Dean Dudley, Australia

Stéphane Dufour, France

Zeljko Dujic, Croatia

Stefan Duma, USA

Ronald Eccles, UK

Örjan Ekblom, Sweden

David Ellemberg, Canada

Adrian Elliott, Australia

Amanda Esquivel, USA

Dulce Esteves, Portugal

Roger Eston, Australia

Ryan Falck, Canada

Coral Falco, Norway

Oliver Faude, Switzerland

Steve Faulkner, UK

Samantha Fawkner, UK

Rômulo Araújo Fernandes, Brazil

César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Spain

Krzysztof Ficek, Poland

Kevin Finn, USA

Joseph Firth, UK

David Fletcher, UK

Jonathan Folland, UK

Lawrence Foweather, UK

Sandra Fowkes-Godek, USA

Argyro Fragkaki, Greece

Jonathan Freeston, Australia

Duncan French, UK

Andrew Fry, USA

David Fukuda, USA

Jackson Fyfe, Australia

Belinda Gabbe, Australia

Tim Gabbett, Australia

Isabelle Gagnon, Canada

Paul Gamble, UK

Yuko Gando, Japan

Andrew Gardner, Australia

Hannes Gatterer, Austria

Ariane Ghekiere, Belgium

Martin Gibala, Canada

Susan Giblin, UK

Jason Gillis, USA

Nicholas Gist, USA

Lasse Gliemann, Denmark

Edwin Goedhart, The Netherlands

Allan Goldfarb, USA

Marcela González-Gross, Spain

Paul Goods, Australia

Alberto Grassi, Italy

Viviane Grassmann, Canada

Richard Greenwald, USA

Herb Groeller, Australia

Markus Gruber, Germany

Gabriel Gual, Spain

Gaël Guilhem, France

Aymeric Guillot, France

Carlos Gutiérrez-García, Spain

Henna Haapala, Finland

Anthony Hackney, USA

Gregory Haff, Australia

Martin Hagglund, Sweden

Jostein Hallén, Norway

D. Lee Hamilton, UK

Ho Han, USA

Keir Hansen, New Zealand

Dominique Hansen, Belgium

Timothy Hartwig, Australia

Satoru Hashizume, Japan

Carl Hasselman, USA

Christophe Hautier, France

Steven Hawkins, USA

Gregory Heath, USA

Anne Hecksteden, Germany

Eric Hegedus, USA

Jorn Heggelund, Norway

Tara Henagan, USA

Kathryn Hesketh, UK

Luiz Hespanhol Jr, The Netherlands

Peter Hespel, Belgium

Timothy Hewett, USA

Michael Higgins, USA

Jamie Highton, UK

Jessica Hill, UK

Angelica Lindén Hirschberg, Sweden

Jill Hnatiuk, Australia

Peter Hofmann, Austria

Matthew Hoon, Australia

Hans Hoppeler, Switzerland

Peggy Horn, Australia

Con Hrysomallis, Australia

Monica Hubal, USA

Airelle Hunter-Giordano, USA

Franco Impellizzeri, Italy

Tim Ingold, UK

Andreas Ivarsson, Sweden

Timo Jaakkola, Finland

Rod Jacques, UK

Jessie Janssen, UK

Tero Jarvinen, Finland

David Jenkins, Australia

Asker Jeukendrup, USA

Edward Jo, USA

Michael Johnston, UK

Ryan Jones, USA

Lynette Jones, New Zealand

Esme Jordaan, South Africa

Vanessa Jordan, New Zealand

Martin Jørgenson, Denmark

Elizabeth Joy, USA

Carsten Juhl, Denmark

Mary Jung, Canada

Claudia Juzwiak, Brazil

Thomas Karakolis, Canada

Trine Karlsen, Norway

Bettina Karsten, UK

Johannes Keller, Germany

Eleftherios Kellis, Greece

Jacqueline Kerr, USA

Liam Kilduff, UK

Jonathan Kim, USA

Doug King, New Zealand

Simon Kingham, New Zealand

Florence Kinnafick, UK

Pascale Kippelen, UK

Stefan Koehn, UK

Pelagia Koufaki, UK

Alex Kountouris, Australia

Yiannis Koutedakis, Greece

Laura Kox, The Netherlands

Robert Kraemer, USA

Andreas Kramer, Germany

Vikki Krane, USA

Mauricio Krause, Ireland

James Krieger, USA

Cara Krulewitch, USA

Christopher Kuenze, USA

Paul Kuijer, The Netherlands

Toshiyuki Kurihara, Japan

Joanna Kvist, Sweden

Matthew Kwan, Canada

Andre La Gerche, Australia

Carlos Lago-Penas, Spain

Raechel Laing, New Zealand

G. Patrick Lambert, USA

Michael Lambert, South Africa

Natalie Jayne, Lander, Australia

Beatriz Lara, Spain

Paul LaStayo, USA

Michele Lastella, Australia

Brian Lau, USA

Paul Laursen, New Zealand

Carl Lavie, USA

Jill Leckey, Australia

Duck-Chul Lee, USA

Paul Lee, Hong Kong

Luc Leger, Canada

Alexandre Lehnen, Brazil

Frederic Lemaitre, France

Roland Leser, Austria

Nathan Lewis, UK

Yue Liao, USA

Maléne Lindholm, Sweden

Jonathan Little, Canada

Arne Ljungqvist, Sweden

Rui Jorges Lopes, Portugal

Vitor Lopes, Portugal

Paul Loprinzi, USA

Thomas Losnegard, Norway

Anne Loucks, USA

Henry Lukaski, USA

Tommy Lundberg, Sweden

Carsten Lundby, Switzerland

Thibault Lussiana, France

Robert Lynall, USA

Alan MacPherson, UK

Andrew Maiorana, Australia

Gerard Malanga, USA

Rebecca Mallinson, USA

Terry Malone, USA

James Mandigo, Canada

David Mann, The Netherlands

Steve Mann, UK

Theresa Mann, South Africa

Claudio Marabotti, Italy

Eloi Marijon, France

Mário Marques, Portugal

Paul Marshall, Australia

Kristy Martin, Australia

Marrissa Martyn-St James, UK

Gordon Matheson, USA

Alexis Mauger, UK

Ron Maughan, UK

Frank Mayer, Germany

John Mayer, USA

Alan McCall, UK

Mary Beth McCarthy, USA

Lacey McCormack, USA

Alister McCormick, UK

Gordon McGregor, UK

Michael McGuigan, New Zealand

Blake McLean, USA

Daniel McMaster, New Zealand

Catherine McParlin, UK

Jessica Mee, UK

Carla Meijen, UK

Troy Merry, Switzerland

Adrian Midgley, UK

Zoran Milanović, Serbia

Neal Millar, UK

Chris Milne, New Zealand

Geoffrey Minett, Australia

Cameron Mitchell, New Zealand

Jeffrey Mjaanes, USA

Kush Modi, USA

Trine Moholdt, Norway

Michal Molcho, Ireland

Alexandre Moreira, Brazil

Jean-Benoit Morin, France

David Morris, USA

Dylan Morrissey, UK

Margo Mountjoy, Canada

Laurent Mourot, France

Lanay Mudd, USA

Thomas Muehlbauer, Germany

Toby Mundel, New Zealand

Aron Murphy, Australia

Toshiaki Nakajima, Japan

Fabio Nakamura, Brazil

Vincenzo Natale, Italy

Mathieu Nedelec, France

Lindsay Nelson, USA

Thomas Nesser, USA

Gabriel Rodrigues Neto, Brazil

Alan Nevill, UK

Karl Newell, USA

Andrew Nichols, USA

Vaughan Nicholson, Australia

David Nieman, USA

Johanna Nieuwoudt, Australia

Sophia Nimphius, Australia

Paul Nolan, New Zealand

Lena Norrbrand, Sweden

Ken Nosaka, Australia

Mohamed Ismail Nounou, Egypt

Ruhollah Nourian, Islamic Republic of Iran

Michael Nunns, UK

Lars Nybo, Denmark

Kathryn O’Connor, USA

Ciara O’Hagan, UK

Francesco Oliva, Italy

David Olive, USA

Jon Oliver, UK

Benita Olivier, South Africa

Vahur Oopik, Estonia

Tanja Oosthuyse, South Africa

John O’Reilly, Hong Kong

Katrine Owe, Norway

Julian Owen, UK

Johnny Padulo, Italy

Benjamin Pageaux, France

Derek Panchuk, Australia

Melissa Pangelinan, USA

Antonio Paoli, Italy

Elena Papacosta, Cyprus

Stefan Pasiakos, USA

Russell Pate, USA

Carl Paton, New Zealand

Caterina Pesce, Italy

Aaron Petersen, Australia

Mark Peterson, USA

Steven Petruzzello, USA

Erich Petushek, USA

Stuart Phillips, Canada

Maria Piacentini, Italy

Maarit Piirtola, Finland

Julian Pillay, South Africa

Tania Pizzari, Australia

Daniel Plews, New Zealand

Babette Pluim, The Netherlands

Stefanie Podlog (nee Schulte), USA

Noel Pollock, UK

Jeremy Pomeroy, USA

Michael Posthumus, South Africa

Francois Potdevin, France

Federico Pozzi, USA

Luis Puente-Maestu, Spain

Jonas Quist, Denmark

Truls Raastad, Norway

Mikael Rabaeus, Switzerland

Regis Radaelli, Brazil

Zsolt Radak, Hungary

Peter Raffalt, Denmark

Sudarshan Ramachandran, UK

Christian Raschner, Austria

Ben Rattray, Australia

Claudia Reardon, USA

Thomas Redick, USA

Robert Rein, Germany

Mathias Reiser, Germany

Chad Rethorst, USA

Gustaaf Reurink, The Netherlands

Juan Pablo Rey-López, Brazil

Elizabeth Richardson, UK

Florence Riera, France

Leah Robinson, USA

Luís Rodrigues, Portugal

Jose Rodriguez-Marroyo, Spain

Gabriel Rodríguez-Romo, Spain

Mike Rogerson, UK

Isabelle Rogowski, France

Simon Rosenbaum, Australia

Mads Rosenkilde, Denmark

Lindy Rossow, USA

Kenneth Rothman, USA

Emily Rousham, UK

Thomas Rowland, USA

Bethany Rowson, USA

Steve Rowson, USA

Mark Russell, UK

Michael Ryan, Australia

Massimo Sacchetti, Italy

Atle Saeterbakken, Norway

Aki Salo, UK

Pierre Samozino, France

Jaime Sampaio, Portugal

Øyvind Sandbakk, Norway

Bruno Tirotti Saragiotto, Australia

André Schmidt, Brazil

Brad Schoenfeld, USA

Jörg Schorer, Germany

Matt Schubert, USA

Yorck Schumacher, Qatar

Moritz Schumann, Finland

Martin Schwellnus, South Africa

Brendan Scott, Australia

Silvia Sedano, Spain

Matthew Seeley, USA

Laurent Seitz, Australia

Mohsen Shafizadehkenari, UK

Sanjay Sharma, UK

Ken Sharpe, Australia

Rob Shave, UK

Sarah Shultz, New Zealand

Stephen Simons, USA

Susan Sisson, USA

Nina Skjæret, Norway

Sabrina Skorski, Germany

Jean Slawinski, France

Mitchell Smith, Australia

Jordan Smith, Australia

Gerald Smith, USA

Rod Snow, Australia

Richard Souza, USA

Martijn Spruit, The Netherlands

Jamie Stanley, Australia

Stephen Stannard, New Zealand

Peter Stanwell, Australia

Liza Stathokostas, Canada

James Steele, UK

Trent Stellingwerff, Canada

Marta Stępień-Słodkowska, Poland

Lotte Steuten, USA

Michael Stickland, Canada

Michael Stone, USA

Sam Stuart, UK

Max Stuelcken, Australia

Shuichi Suetani, Australia

John Sutton, Australia

Paul Swinton, UK

Alberto Tagliafico, Italy

Erwin Tak, The Netherlands

Scott Talpey, Australia

Marcus Tartaruga, Brazil

Wolfgang Taube, Switzerland

Rod Taylor, UK

Adam Tenforde, USA

Olli Tenovuo, Finland

Nicolas Terrados, Spain

Hugo Theoret, Canada

Mario Thevis, Germany

Gaetano Thiene, Italy

David Thivel, France

Martin Thomas, UK

Kevin Thompson, Australia

Jane Thornton, Canada

Kevin Till, UK

Markus Tilp, Austria

Kyle Timmerman, USA

Toomas Timpka, Sweden

Lorena Torres-Ronda, Spain

Argyris Toubekis, Greece

Julio Tous-Fajardo, Spain

Mardie Townsend, Australia

Tahmine Tozman, Germany

Mark Tremblay, Canada

Joel Trinity, USA

N. Travis Triplett, USA

Yorghos Tripodis, USA

Tracey Tsang, Australia

Carole Tucker, USA

Anthony Turner, UK

Christopher Tyler, UK

Viswanath Unnithan, UK

Jeroen van Cutsem, Belgium

Roland van den Tillaar, Norway

Nick van der Horst, The Netherlands

Henk van der Worp, The Netherlands

Elsbeth van Dorssen, The Netherlands

Judy van Raalte, USA

Alain Vandal, New Zealand

Yannick Vandendijck, Belgium

Henry Vandewalle, France

Matthew Varley, Australia

Tommi Vasankari, Finland

Fabrice Vercruyssen, France

Evert Verhagen, The Netherlands

Geoffrey Verrall, Australia

Sam Vine, UK

Birte von Haaren, Germany

Katja Waller, Finland

Gareth Wallis, UK

Kevin Waninger, USA

John Wann, UK

Richard Washburn, USA

Jim Waterhouse, UK

Collin Webster, USA

Cailee Welch Bacon, USA

Daniel West, Canada

Wayne Westcott, USA

Maria Westin, Sweden

Kathryn Weston, UK

Matthew Weston, UK

Peter Weyand, USA

Erik Wikstrom, USA

Catherine Wild, Australia

Matthias Wilhelm, Switzerland

Gary Wilkerson, USA

Michael Wilkinson, UK

Jeffrey Willardson, USA

Barry Willer, USA

Andrew Williams, Australia

Nancy Williams, USA

Mark Williams, UK

Craig Williams, UK

Jonathan Wingo, USA

Edward Winter, UK

Lauren Wise, USA

Rob Withagen, The Netherlands

Harriet Wittink, The Netherlands

Alexander Woll, Germany

Barbara Wondrasch, Austria

Tom Wooldridge, USA

Eric Yoshida, Canada

Kaelin Young, USA

Warren Young, Australia

Joseph Zeni Jr, USA

Quan Jiang Zhang, USA

Ming Hao Zheng, Australia

Nina Zisko, Norway

Micah Zuhl, USA

Finally, we would like to offer our sincere thanks to the journal’s Honorary Editorial Board members, who have also acted as peer reviewers and authors, and have provided guidance on journal content, policy and processes:

Ezra Amsterdam, USA

Greg Atkinson, UK

J. Chris Baldi, New Zealand

Colin Boreham, Ireland

Martin Buchheit, France

Roger Enoka, USA

Caroline Finch, Australia

Carl Foster, USA

Urs Granacher, Germany

John Hawley, Australia

Patria Hume, New Zealand

Wilfried Kindermann, Germany

Paavo Komi, Finland

William Kraemer, USA

Susi Kriemler, Switzerland

David Lavallee, UK

Yann Le Meur, Monaco

Jeremy Loenneke, USA

Samuele Marcora, UK

Jacques Poortmans, Belgium

Roy Shephard, Canada

Perikles Simon, Germany

Alan St. Clair Gibson, New Zealand

Nigel Stepto, Australia

Joseph Torg, USA

Jos Twisk, The Netherlands

Willem van Mechelen, The Netherlands

We sincerely hope that you have found the articles published throughout 2016 to be both interesting and informative, and we look forward to keeping you up to date with topical issues in the sports and exercise medicine field in 2017.

With best wishes from

Roger Olney and Steve McMillan

Editors

Sports Medicine