The phrase "athlete hours" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the amount of time an athlete dedicates to training, practice, or competition.
Example: "The coach emphasized the importance of maximizing athlete hours to improve performance and achieve better results."
Alternatives: "training hours" or "practice time".
At any one point, around 10 per cent are injured and another 10 per cent suspended, and as concerns about concussion grow across sport in general, consider these figures: the rate of concussion per thousand athlete hours is 3.9 in rugby union, 13.2 in boxing, but rises to 25 in jump racing, and over 95 for point-to-point competitors.
In his recently published account of his record, My Hour, Wiggins speculates about attempting an "Athlete's Hour" – in essence an Hour where the rider's use of aerodynamic aids is severely restricted – but he appears to have put that idea to rest.
It can kill an athlete in hours".
In later years, as technology brought carbon-fiber bicycle frames and aerodynamic handlebars into professional use, and, controversially, into hour-record attempts, Merckx's record would come to be known as "the athlete's hour".
Yet when Ondrej Sosenska took the "athlete's" Hour to 49.7km in Moscow in July 2005, the cycling world said "who?" It seemed that the Hour, thanks to meddling from a UCI unable to strike the balance between the purists and the technophiles, was dead.
This is the moment when the UCI pins the "athlete's hour" like a butterfly in a specimen cabinet.
At least 800 chefs will cook for the athletes 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The real challenge, they implied, was to try and best Eddy Merckx, on his terms, in what they called the "athlete's Hour".
The glamour went from it when the UCI went to the athlete's hour and moving away from it was the best decision they made.
It had been Legeay's idea to tackle the "athlete's Hour" after deciding not to select Boardman for the 2000 Tour de France.
Amid the regulatory confusion, Merckx's "athlete's hour" was an anchor for cycling fans, and many found something sacred about it, even after Boardman beat it by ten metres, in 2000, riding a traditional bike.
