When 150 years ago research began into the ancient pentathlon and related questions, it was not even clear what events this included. Today there is no longer any doubt that this pentathlon included discus and javelin throwing, running, leaping, and wrestling. Many other details have since been clarified, but investigations in this field are not yet concluded. Two problems still await solution ...

by Kenneth Arduino A ra the r large crowd witnesses the Albany wrestling team's seventh victory as they, beat Oneonta State29 to 11,'to run their record to 7 — I, Wednesday. Albany, who at one point trailed 9 — 3 after three matches, battled back with undefeated Tom Horn winning a nine to five decision to tie the •match. Horn seemed to wrestle the last thirty seconds with one good eye after tak...

One of the few research projects to have focused on NHS hospital chaplains reports widely divergent views regarding its service. On the one hand, chaplaincy is described as being ‘utterly essential’, a view supported by comments reporting that it is a discipline surfing along ‘on the crest a wave’. On the other hand, it has also been described as being ‘benignly superfluous’ and as a profession...

The association between androgens and competition in women has been understudied compared with men. The current study examined the link between testosterone (T) and competition in elite female athletes, using a sample of female wrestlers that included athletes competing at both the national and international level. In a repeated-measures design, saliva samples were collected before and after wr...

A quotation from Ben Okri’s Birds of Heaven – written in the context of a Nigeria wrestling with postcolonial nation building – opens James Robertson’s Joseph Knight.[1] This theme of a nation facing its own historical truths points to the drive of Robertson’s historical novel: to open up the established national narrative of Scotland to the black Atlantic issues of slavery, rebellion, race and...

Cichlids of the species Nannacara anomala employ several colour displays during fights which do not seem to signal either fighting ability or motivation. How should these colour displays be interpreted when winning is reliably predicted by weight asymmetries? Medial Line colour displays were associated with, and predicted, tail-beating, while Vertical Bar colour displays were associated with mo...

Historically, collegiate wrestlers have been associated with utilizing rapid weight loss methods to reach a desired weight class. Following three deaths in 1997, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) implemented a program which prevents wrestlers from wrestling below a minimum weight (MW) of 5% body fat. Although numerous studies have investigated adolescent wrestlers, few have in...