Science and slush beating the heat at Qatar World Cup

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LONDON : Hard-running midfielders could lose up to three litres of sweat during a World Cup match in Qatar, but the fast-moving world of sports science is on hand to help enable players maintain performance when in previous years they may have wilted.Although the tournament has been moved to November/Dece

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LONDON : Hard-running midfielders could lose up to three litres of sweat during a World Cup match in Qatar, but the fast-moving world of sports science is on hand to help enable players maintain performance when in previous years they may have wilted.

The deterioration in sharpness and concentration caused by dehydration is well-documented but only more recently have coaches and players accepted the benefits of individually customised products that replace the key electrolytes and minerals lost through prodigious sweating. Andy Blow, former elite triathlete and co-founder of Precision Hydration, a company specialising in sweat testing and nutrition, says that football as a sport has been a bit late to the party but that most leading teams are now buying in.

"They are the ones who are going looking under every single rock to find something, and obviously, with the World Cup and the potential for it to be quite hot, that's focussed a lot of that attention on heat, the effects of heat and then ways to mitigate it. The other major development on show in Qatar will be the stadium cooling technology - which basically blows cold air across the pitch - via different systems in different stadiums.

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