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Sports medicine pearls and pitfalls—Body clocks in sports: Time and tide wait for no man

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Eichner, E.R. Sports medicine pearls and pitfalls—Body clocks in sports: Time and tide wait for no man. Curr Sports Med Rep 6, 342–343 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11932-007-0046-3

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