July 16, 2004
A Physical Chemist Goes to the Mat
It's a few minutes before 2 on a Tuesday afternoon when William Ronald Groves steps into a classroom at the University of Denver to teach a course he's designed, "The Role and Impact of Science: How Olympic Athletes Obtain the Cutting Edge."
The undergraduates here are eager to talk about what happens to an athlete who overtrains, and to debate whether swimmers, for example, need more body fat than sprinters.
What the students don't discuss is just how personal the subject is to
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