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Original articles

• Sports in extreme conditions: The impact of exercise in cold temperatures on asthma and bronchial hyper-responsiveness in athletes (20 August, 2012)

  Kai-Håkon Carlsen
• Hyperthermic-related challenges in aquatics, athletics, football, tennis and triathlon (20 August, 2012)

  Margo Mountjoy, Juan-Manuel Alonso, Michael F Bergeron, Jiri Dvorak, Stuart Miller, Sergio Migliorini, Dato’ Gurcharan Singh
• New guidelines are needed to manage heat stress in elite sports – The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Heat Stress Monitoring Programme (20 August, 2012)

  Roald Bahr, Jonathan C Reeser
• Individual responses to short-term heat acclimatisation as predictors of football performance in a hot, dry environment (20 August, 2012)

  Sebastien Racinais, Magni Mohr, Martin Buchheit, Sven Christian Voss, Nadia Gaoua, Justin Grantham, Lars Nybo
• Elite athletes travelling to international destinations >5 time zone differences from their home country have a 2–3-fold increased risk of illness (20 August, 2012) Free

  Martin P Schwellnus, Wayne Elton Derman, Esme Jordaan, Tony Page, Mike Ian Lambert, Clint Readhead, Craig Roberts, Ryan Kohler, Robert Collins, Stephen Kara, Michael Ian Morris, Org Strauss, Sandra Webb
• The role of haemoglobin mass on VO₂max following normobaric ‘live high–train low’ in endurance-trained athletes (20 August, 2012)

  Paul Robach, Christoph Siebenmann, Robert A Jacobs, Peter Rasmussen, Nikolai Nordsborg, Dominik Pesta, Erich Gnaiger, Víctor Díaz, Andreas Christ, Julia Fiedler, Nadine Crivelli, Niels H Secher, Aurélien Pichon, Marco Maggiorini, Carsten Lundby
• Health risk for athletes at moderate altitude and normobaric hypoxia (20 August, 2012)

  Kai Schommer, Elmar Menold, Andrew W Subudhi, Peter Bärtsch